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What We Overlook: Background Checks and Their Implications for Discrimination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Kristine M. Kuhn
Kristine M. Kuhn*
Affiliation:
Washington State University
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E-mail: [email protected], Address: Department of Management, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4743
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 2013 , pp. 419 - 423
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2013

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