
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | In a field experiment sending more than 8,000 fictitious résumés to real job ads, applicants with a self-employment background received ~28% fewer callbacks than wage earners in associate-professional jobs, while facing almost no penalty in managerial positions
https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587261440312
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Wow, the labor market really *is* tough. Those poor работс applied for all these jobs back in 2017 and just now heard back
Having 30 years of entrepreneurship, this study makes me feel a little better about the absolute silence I heard while sending out hundreds of resumes from 2022-2025.
So the lesson is to apply to be a manager?