Anonymous job applications in Europe

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Krause, Annabelle ^b   Rinne, Ulf ^b   Zimmermann, Klaus F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anonymous job applications; Discrimination; Hiring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983249351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21939012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-9012-1-5     Document Type: Article

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