The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals
By Stephen V. Burks, Bo Cowgill, M. Hoffman, M. Housman. 2015
261 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Public Administration, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis (2020, unknown): “Such a “balanced panel” analysis (e.g., Brown et al., 2016; Burks et al., 2015) yields qualitatively similar results to those in Table 8.”
- Social Networks and Labor Markets: How Strong Ties Relate to Job Finding on Facebook’s Social Network (2017, background): “…social tie, and social networks help explain observed labor market phenomenon like duration dependence and the socioeconomic, geographic, and racial concentration of unemployment.1 Additionally, workers who find jobs via a social tie have lower turnover and higher productivity (Burks et al. 2015).”
- Social Incentives in Organizations (2018, background): “, one in two jobs are found through referrals (Burks et al., 2015) and the rate is likely to be higher in poorer countries where labor markets are thinner.”
- Discretion in Hiring Mitchell (2015, unknown): “[9] Burks, Stephen, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman, and Michael Housman (2015), “The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130(2): pp.”
- Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi (2018, background): “The firm in Brown et al. (2016) provides a small cash bonus if a referred worker stays for at least 6 months; in the Burk et al. (2015) data, the trucking firm provides a bonus to referred workers who stay for at least 3 or 4 months, and the call-center firms provide no bonus at some locations but…”