Who actually decides which candidates make the shortlist? Almasa Sarabi and Nico Lehmann followed hiring decisions through four data sources to pin down ...

Xu Li's Berlin apartment sat amid the clubs, which got him wondering how DJs land jobs at all. With Amandine Ody-Brasier he followed ...

Fifty million job postings across 28 European countries went into Letian Zhang and Shinan Wang's case that societal trust shapes which skills employers ...

The literature is riddled with the dead bodies of failed DEI initiatives, Summer Jackson jokes. So she chose a company trying to do ...

Hatim Rahman had spent a year embedded in an online labor platform when it switched to an opaque rating algorithm. That accident of ...

For the first-time women workers Aruna Ranganathan studied at an Indian garment factory, what mattered was training in self-presentation, work-life separation, and self-reliance. ...

JR Keller traces his interest in internal labor markets back to Friday afternoons at Denny's, where he pored over the sports transactions in ...

Matthew Bidwell, winner of the 2017 ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution, sits down on video to revisit how 'Paying More to Get Less' ...

Raina Brands and Isabel Fernandez-Mateo discuss why bruising recruitment experiences lead women to stop competing for executive roles, and what the Lean In ...

Adam Cobb and Flannery Stevens argue that where large firms employ fewer people, state income inequality rises. The idea traces back to Jerry ...

Reading statistics on the cost of replacing workers, Matthew Bidwell kept wondering how anyone actually knew. The answer became a paper showing that ...

Sharon Koppman traces how omnivorous cultural tastes formed in childhood help people land creative jobs in adulthood, a link two cultural capital literatures ...

The idea for studying résumé whitening came from Sora Jun, then an undergraduate. She and Sonia Kang, Katherine DeCelles, and András Tilcsik describe ...

Conventional wisdom says specialists are rewarded. Jennifer Merluzzi and Damon Phillips found the opposite among MBAs entering investment banking, where the most focused ...

Vaughn Tan had been hanging around cutting-edge culinary R&D teams since 2003 before realizing they were a research site. People there contribute enormously ...

Emily Bianchi graduated into the dot-com crash, cobbled together part-time jobs, and was grateful for a badly paid one. She describes how that ...

András Tilcsik went into his dissertation site planning to study culture and networks, but the data he needed didn't exist. He recounts how ...