... consequences of adopting a formal culture-fit measurement system in employee selection. I exploit the staggered feature of the adoption of the system and find that employees selected with the system perform significantly better than those without the system. However, the performance consequences of adopting...

... of how to respond to incentives, resulting in different matching outcomes. employee selection referrals financial incentives distorted effort allocation multitasks Firms commonly use referral-based hiring as a means of hiring the “right” employees, as it can reduce information frictions...

... congruence effects of below-market pay observed in Experiment 1 are driven by employee selection and not by direct effects of the compensation contracts. In the second supplemental experiment, we replicate Experiment 1 with an additional control condition: at-market, in which participants choose between...