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Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Kaas, Leo; Lochner, Benjamin - 2023

-sided heterogeneity, multiple search channels and endogenous recruitment effort. The estimation reveals that networks are the most cost …

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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and financial constraints in firms

Arabzadeh, Hamzeh; Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; … - 2023

minimum wages when firms are financially constrained. We introduce financial frictions into a search and matching labor market … model with stochastic job matching, imperfect information, and endogenous effort. In line with the empirical literature, the …

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Informal search, bad search? : the effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China

Chen, Yuanyuan; Wang, Le; Zhang, Min - 2017

The use of informal job search method is prevalent in many countries. There is, however, no consensus in the literature on whether it actually matters for wages, and if it does, what are the underlying mechanisms. We empirically examine these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban...

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Skill demand and wages : evidence from linked vacancy data

Ziegler, Lennart - 2021

This study provides new evidence on skill requirements in the labor market and shows to what extent skill demand is associated with wages and vacancy duration. Using more than 1.5 million job postings administered by the Austrian public employment service, I identify the most common skill...

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Information frictions and labor market outcomes

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Loviglio, Annalisa; Piemontese, Lavinia - 2015

We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using data for 16 countries from the European Social Survey...

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How effective are hiring subsidies to reduce long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...

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The effect of wages on job vacancy duration : evidence from a spatial discontinuity

Carter, Charles; Delaney, Judith; Papps, Kerry L. - 2024

fill worker shortages faster by raising wages. This also highlights the importance this margin of worker recruitment when …

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Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Lochner, Benjamin; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2021

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of new...

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Job search during the COVID-19 crisis

Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2020

This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...

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Employers' search and the efficiency of matching

Pellizzari, Michele (contributor) - 2005

and make employers more satisfied with the person taken on. -- labour turnover ; matching ; recruitment ; hiring … empirical finding is related to variation in the efficiency of the matching process across occupations. A simple theoretical …' recruitment practices, shows that more intensive recruitment leads to matches of better quality that pay higher wages, last longer …

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