Will Twitter’s Size Protect It from Defections?
Economists consider to what degree network effects will help Twitter as some users grow concerned about the platform.
Will Twitter’s Size Protect It from Defections?Employers are expected to hire the person most qualified for a job, but they can be swayed by other factors, including a preference for workers who share their political views. This political bias can be more influential in hiring than gender or racial bias, according to an analysis of Brazil’s labor market by Chicago Booth’s Emanuele Colonnelli, EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance’s Valdemar Pinho Neto, and Northwestern’s Edoardo Teso. The researchers measured the probability that a business owner in highly polarized Brazil would hire someone who identified with the same political party, relative to a random matching of owners and workers who happened to have the same views. They find that matches between workers and employers who belonged to the same party were on average 1.5 times more likely than an arbitrary pairing would predict, far higher than race- or gender-related matches. To learn more, read “Bosses, Check Your Political Bias When Hiring.”
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