Late payments and leery applicants: Credit checks as a selection test

Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-130

  Nielsen, Marsha L ^a   Kuhn, Kristine M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Credit history; Organizational justice; Privacy; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349109702     PISSN: 08927545     EISSN: 15733378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10672-008-9071-5     Document Type: Article

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