"In the context of the IAB Job Vacancy Survey (EGS) firms were asked if they had to cancel recruitment processes for open vacancies in the year of the survey because no suitable candidates were found. It remains ambiguous if this cancellation means the actual ending of the firms' recruitment...

"Based on the two IAB establishment surveys - the IAB Establishment Panel and the IAB Job Vacancy Survey - this report sheds light on the German labour market from the firms' perspective and gives information about the labour demand and resulting skills shortages for the years 2006 to 2012. With...

"Potential skills shortages on the labour market are one of the main topics in the public focus in Germany after the financial crisis of the late 2000s. This paper is one of the results of a project funded by the German federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and contributes to the...

"Labour shortages are a field of research that has been investigated quite thoroughly. The reactions of firms facing problems during the hiring process are, however, largely neglected in empirical literature. Our research will fill this empirical gap and shed light on the question of whether...

"The IAB-Job Vacancy Survey (IAB-JVS) is the only establishment survey in Germany which contains information about vacancies and new hires on an occupational level. When the new German Classification of Occupations 2010 was introduced, it became necessary to integrate it into the IAB-JVS. This...

"In recent years, macroeconomic data on job vacancies are increasingly in the focus of interest. This is due to the fact, that administrative data on job openings do not cover the macroeconomic information, neither in their structure nor in their extent. In Germany, this gap can be bridged by...

"In recent years, macroeconomic data on job vacancies are increasingly in the focus of interest. This is due to the fact, that administrative data on job openings do not cover the macroeconomic information, neither in their structure nor in their extent. In Germany, this gap can be bridged by...

"By using multinomial logistic regressions we try to chase up determinants of the course of recruitment processes. With the aid of a disjoint typology we analyse three types of successful hiring processes on predicting characteristics e. g. of the position to be filled and of the searching firm....

"Sociological as well as economic research is interested in the role of social net-works in staffing processes. Empirical studies usually consider them as relevant from the job seekers' point of view. But there is only little knowledge of firms' perspective on this issue. This paper contributes...

"Using a search theoretical model, we analyse the effects of the information flow via social networks (friends, relatives and other personal contacts) by comparing monetary and non-monetary outcomes in obtaining jobs via networks versus formal methods. Propensity-score matching on survey data...