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Social Media as a Recruitment and Data Collection Tool : Experimental Evidence on the Relative Effectiveness of Web Surveys and Chatbots

Beam, Emily - 2022

-media-based recruitment can be an attractive alternative for targeted sampling and that online surveys can be implemented effectively at a …

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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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Using Online Vacancy and Job Applicants' Data to Study Skills Dynamics

Bennett, Fidel; Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah; … - 2022

We assess whether online data on vacancies and applications to a job board are a suitable source for studying skills dynamics outside of Europe and the United States, where a rich literature has examined skills dynamics using online vacancy data. Yet, the knowledge on skills dynamics is scarce...

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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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Why is Unemployment Duration a Sorting Criterion in Hiring?

Van Belle, Eva - 2017

Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration as a sorting criterion. In the present study, we investigate the mechanisms underlying this pattern. To this end, we conduct a lab experiment in which participants make hiring...

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Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers

Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan K.; Walters, Christopher R. - 2021

We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. employers. Distinctively Black names reduce the probability of employer...

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Countercyclical Recruiting Rates and the Value of Jobs

Yashiv, Eran - 2015

U.S. CPS gross flows data indicate that in recessions firms actually increase their hiring rates from the pools of the unemployed and out of the labor force. Why so? The paper provides an explanation by studying the optimal recruiting behavior of the representative firm. This behavior is a...

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Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 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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Firm Recruitment Behaviour : Sequential or Non-Sequential Search?

Ommeren, Jos van - 2009

In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis that firms search sequentially based on the relationship between the number of (rejected) job...

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The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits

Cahuc, Pierre - 2018

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of hiring credits. Using comprehensive administrative data, we show that the French hiring credit, implemented during the Great Recession, had significant positive employment effects and no effects on wages. Relying on the quasi-experimental variation in...

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