To advance knowledge of word-of-mouth as a company-independent recruitment source, this study draws on conceptualizations of word-of-mouth in the marketing literature. The sample consisted of 612 potential applicants targeted by the Belgian Defense. Consistent with the recipient-source framework, time spent receiving positive word-of-mouth was determined by the traits of the recipient (extraver...

Both research and advertising practice support the proposition that endorsers, particularly celebrity endorsers, are effective in persuading consumers to buy products. Unfortunately, our understanding doesn’t go far beyond that point. The existing literature presents a number of factors (e.g., expertise, attractiveness) that increase persuasion under certain circumstances, but the relative impo...

This study examines the effects of procedural justice perceptions on outcomes in an actual selection context with applicants taking a general mental ability test to gain employment as utility meter readers. Applicant attraction and intention related to the organization were measured at 3 time periods. This allowed us to control for initial levels of outcome variables and the pass–fail result wh...

This work presents a method for estimating human facial attractiveness, based on supervised learning techniques. Numerous facial features that describe facial geometry, color and texture, combined with an average human attractiveness score for each facial image, are used to train various predictors. Facial attractiveness ratings produced by the final predictor are found to be highly correlated ...

As competition for funding and students intensifies, it becomes increasingly important for psychology programs to have an image that is attractive and makes them stand out from other programs. The current study uses the instrumental-symbolic framework from the marketing domain to determine the image of different master's programs in psychology and examines how these image dimensions relate to s...

This study investigates the impacts of publicity exposure and recruiting advertisement sequence on freshmen’s job search attraction to organizations and their job decisions. The current research uses a two-factor experiment design, publicity (positive vs. negative) and recruiting ads (detailed vs. general), and recruits 415 undergraduates (seniors are the majority). Results indicate that negati...

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, and Turkey, is brought forth. The comparative approach shows that immigrants in Sweden and Denmark experienced similar decli...

In the first half of this stimulating paper, Dennis Snower gives us a review of the existing academic literature on inequality. His bottom line is that some of the inequality appears to derive from globalization, deindustrialization, and technological change, but a significant degree of inequality and several other features of wage behavior remain unexplained. Snower then suggests an answer, wh...