The Targeted Jobs Credit: An Evaluation of Its Impact on the Employment Decision Process .
使用人类判断研究方法，评估定向就业信贷是否激励雇主增加对特定群体的招聘，发现该信贷对就业决策无显著影响，且大部分情况下是意外收益。
Abstract Human Judgment Research techniques were used to determine if the targeted jobs credit acted as an incentive to employers to increase their hiring of certain targeted groups. The research design centered upon the construction of an employment decision model in which the targeted jobs credit was introduced as an additional variable in the employment decision process. Employers in the five metropolitan areas of Colorado were asked to make 30 hypothetical employment decisions using a six-point rating scale which ranged from definitely do not hire (-3) to definitely would hire (+ 3). The employment decisions were based upon seven general employment attributes and two targeted jobs credit attributes. The completed questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Ranked Signs Test. The study showed that the targeted jobs credit did not have any significant impact on the employment decision process and that it was a windfall benefit which rewarded the employer for hiring an applicant who would have been hired anyway. Forty-four percent of the decisions resulted in windfall gains. In another 39 percent of the decisions the credit had no impact on the decision process, in ten percent of the decisions it had an adverse impact and in only seven percent of the decisions did it result in an employment decision in which an employer hired an otherwise unacceptable applicant.