The Signaling Value of Labor Market Programs

The wage penalty for motherhood: Evidence on discrimination from panel data and a survey experiment for Switzerland

“…Factorial surveys, also known as vignette studies, have been used in social sciences for decades (Rossi and Nock 1982), but were only recently taken up in economic sociology to study the preferences of employers (e.g., Di Stasio 2014;Liechti et al 2017). Factorial surveys simulate the hiring process by presenting the résumés of fictitious job candidates to respondents and asking them for ratings.…”