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Competitive job seekers : when sharing less leaves firms at a loss

Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - 2024

We study how job-seekers share information about jobs within their social network, and its implications for firms. We randomly increase the amount of competition for a job and find that job-seekers are less likely to share information about the job with their high ability peers. This lowers the...

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Search costs and the determinants of job search

Beam, Emily A. - 2020

high degree of uncertainty about their likelihood of job-finding to apply with recruitment agencies. These results …

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Crowding out in the labour market : do employers lend a hand?

Verhaest, Dieter; Bogaert, Elene; Dereymaeker, Jeroen; … - 2016

We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...

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Recruitment policies, job-filling rates and matching efficiency

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Gartner, Hermann; Kaas, Leo - 2020

Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …

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Duration dependence in finding a job : applications, interviews, and job offers

Zuchuat, Jeremy; Lalive, Rafael; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2023

The job finding rate declines with the duration of unemployment. While this is a well established fact, the reasons are still disputed. We use monthly search diaries from Swiss public employment offices to shed new light on this issue. Search diaries record all applications sent by job seekers,...

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Can reputation discipline the gig economy? : experimental evidence from an online labor market

Benson, Alan; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Umyarov, Akhmed - 2015

In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. First, in an audit study of employers by a blinded worker, we find that working only for good...

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Social connections and the sorting of workers to firms

Eliason, Marcus; Hensvik, Lena; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2019

The literature on social networks often presumes that job search through (strong) social ties leads to increased inequality by providing privileged individuals with access to more attractive labor market opportunities. We assess this presumption in the context of sorting between AKM-style person...

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Job search and hiring with two-sided limited information about workseekers' skills

Carranza, Eliana; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; Rankin, Neil - 2021

We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and helping them to credibly share the results with firms increases workseekers'...

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What happens when employers can no longer discriminate in job ads?

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, Kailing - 2021

When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of call-backs to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 63 (146) percent. The removal 'worked' in this sense...

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Do they find you on Facebook? : Facebook profile picture and hiring chances

Baert, Stijn - 2015

We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...

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