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This paper develops a search model with heterogeneous workers and social networks. High ability workers are more productive and have a larger number of professional contacts. Firms have a choice between a high cost vacancy in the regular labour market and a low cost job opening in the referral...
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This paper presents a search model with heterogeneous workers, social networks and endogenous search intensity. There are three job search channels: costly formal applications and two costless informal channels – through family and professional networks. Our model explains a U-shape referral...
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-sided heterogeneity, multiple search channels and endogenous recruitment effort. The estimation reveals that networks are the most cost …
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-sided heterogeneity, multiple search channels and endogenous recruitment effort. The estimation reveals that networks are the most cost …
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-sided heterogeneity, multiple search channels and endogenous recruitment effort. The estimation reveals that networks are the most cost …
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This paper develops a labour market matching model with heterogeneous firms, on-thejob search and referrals. Social …
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In this paper, the search model is proposed, in which homogeneous firms are uncertain about the job seekers' number of friends, who can help them in the job search (social capital). All workers have the same productivity and differ only in the social capital. A firm offers a take-it-or-leave-it...
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In this study we develop and calibrate a search and matching model of the German labour market and analyze the impact …
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This study explores the relationship between firms' characteristics and their recruitment strategies. We propose a … model based on a search and matching framework with two search channels: a formal channel which is costly for firms and a … Germany reporting information about their most recent recruitment case. Based on the finding that firm size and productivity …
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