Abstract

Formal organizational procedures determine when  personal information becomes visible and actionable at work. I refer to these moments as activation points. Employer-initiated criminal record checks provide an empirical setting that separates organizational disclosure from possession of a record and allows their effects to be estimated separately. The talk then examines how disclosure interacts with information contained in the record itself, including name-based signals such as Danish soundingness. I conclude by outlining a research design that estimates disclosure effects using population-level employer-initiated record check data linked to Danish population registers.

Short Bio

Tünde Cserpes is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Aarhus University. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research examines how out-of-work events generate social market frictions that reshape the joint unfolding of career paths and firm trajectories. She studies divorce, criminal records, and post-startup unemployment to trace the mechanisms through which life outside work shapes participation in it.

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The AIAS Seminar Series is a session of seminars held by the AIAS fellows, AIAS Visiting or Tandem Fellows or by other speakers proposed by the fellows. In each seminar, a fellow will present and discuss her/his current research and work-in-progress to an interdisciplinary audience for 30 minutes, closing off with 30 minutes for questions, comments and discussion.

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