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Sequential or non-sequential recruitment?

Ommeren, Jos van; Russo, Giovanni - 2004

This paper examines the recruitment process of firms. We test whether firms search sequentially or non …. We distinguish between different types of recruitment methods. We find that the sequential hiring is rejected for a … applications by job seekers. Informal recruitment methods tend to imply sequential search. …

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The right man for the job

Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2000

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The right man for the job

Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2000

This paper describes a search model with a continuum of worker and job types, free entry and transferable utility. We apply a second-order Taylor expansion to characterize the equilibrium, derive the "cost of search" and show that it is decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This...

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The attractiveness of temporary employment to reduce adjustment costs

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - 2005

In this paper I determine the importance of adjustment costs in employers' hiring decisions. Temporary work arrangements offer potential ways to avoid adjustment costs. I estimate employers willingness to pay for the characteristics of these work arrangements. I distinguish regular contracts,...

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Job-search periods for welfare applicants : evidence from a randomized experiment

Bolhaar, Jonneke; Kete, Nadine; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2016

This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment with detailed administrative data to investigate the effects of imposing a...

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The duration of unemployment in Russia

Grogan, Louise Anne; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 1999

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine four types of marginalised labour force participants, according to ILO guidelines and survey responses, and we estimate duration models for each type. It turns out that the...

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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999

In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...

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Multiple equilibria and minimum wages in labor markets with informational frictions and heterogeneous production technologies

Berg, Gerard J. van den - 1999

It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...

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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?

Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....

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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities

Gautier, Pieter; Zenou, Yves - 2008

We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...

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