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hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U …Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the ….S. corporation, and test various predictions of theoretical models of labor market referrals. We find that referred candidates are …
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efforts to understand the relationships among employment referrals, match quality, wage trajectories, and turnover. Using a …The limited nature of data on employment referrals in large business and household surveys has so far impeded our … predictions of theoretical models of labor market referrals. Our results align with the following predictions: 1) referred …
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In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish … into the same establishments and provide evidence that these mobility patterns are likely driven by coworker referrals …
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social networks, which means that hiring through referrals should be less frequent in expansions. On the other hand, firms …
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costless informal channel, i.e. referrals. There is a continuum of heterogeneous vacancies in our model where every firm with …'s size and formal search intensity can also be observed for firms that don't use referrals; (4) Firms that use referrals as a … search channel invest less effort into formal search compared to firms that don't use referrals; (5) Larger firms are less …
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costless informal channel, i.e. referrals. There is a continuum of heterogeneous vacancies in our model where every frm with an …'s size and formal search intensity can also be observed for firms that don't use referrals; (4) Firms that use referrals as a … search channel invest less effort into formal search compared to firms that don't use referrals; (5) Larger firms are less …
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How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the medium term evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these...
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How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these questions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261405
In the mid-1980s, many European countries introduced fixed-term contracts. Since then their labor markets have become more dynamic. This paper studies the possible implications of such reforms for the duration distribution of unemployment. I estimate a parametric duration model using...
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This paper constructs and quantitatively assesses an equilibrium search model with on-the- job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers differ in their innate abilities and firms in their productivities. Wages are dispersed because of search frictions and workers'...
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