How Much Do Employers Learn from Referrals?
How Much Do Employers Learn from Referrals?
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雇主从推荐中学到了多少？
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2012
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Joshua C. Pinkston
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作者：
Joshua C. Pinkston
本文检验了这样一个假设：与没有推荐的情况相比，来自各种来源的推荐可以为雇主提供更多有关求职者的信息。我使用 1982 年 EOPP 雇主调查数据，其中包含同一工作的两名工人的信息，这使我能够消除工作和公司特征的差异，并控制来自不同来源推荐（或根本没有推荐）的工人可能会进入对个人绩效赋予不同权重的工作。我的估算结果提供的证据与朋友和家人的推荐一致，为雇主提供了比其他方式更多的信息。然而，尽管他们提供了这些信息，但家庭成员的推荐似乎与对整体绩效影响较小的工作相关。另一方面，其他雇主或工会的推荐似乎提供的信息很少（如果有的话），但与比一般工作更注重绩效的工作相关。我没有发现任何证据表明学校、社区组织或其他来源的推荐提供了有用的信息。
This paper tests the hypothesis that referrals from various sources provide employers with more information about job applicants than they would have without a referral. I use data from the 1982 EOPP Survey of employers that contain information on two workers in the same job, allowing me to cancel out differences in job and firm characteristics and control for the possibility that workers with referrals from different sources (or no referral at all) might sort into jobs that put different weights on individual performance. My estimation results provide evidence consistent with referrals from friends and family members providing employers with more information than they would have otherwise. Despite the information they provide, however, it appears as though referrals from family members are associated with jobs that put less weight on performance overall. On the other hand, referrals from other employers or labor unions appear to provide little, if any, information but are associated with jobs that put more weight on performance than the average job does. I find no evidence that referrals from schools, community organizations or other sources provide useful information.