This paper examines how gender-specific application behaviour, firms' hiring practices, and flexibility demands relate to the gender earnings gap, using linked data from the German Job Vacancy Survey and administrative records. Women are less likely than men to apply to high-wage firms with high...

When searching for employment, workers consider non-wage job characteristics, such as effort requirements or amenities. We study an environment where unemployed workers search for jobs of different quality in a labor market characterized by directed search. In equilibrium, firms are more likely...

Using a unique combination of Austrian administrative data, we show that start-ups' search and hiring decisions matter for their business success. Firms that report vacancies to the Public Employment Service in the early stage of their existence stay longer in the market and grow stronger....

Despite their importance for the success of firms, the job prospects of the unemployed and overall unemployment, the factors that determine firms' decisions to report vacancies to the Public Employment Service and to hire the unemployed are largely unexplored. We address this research gap by...

The job finding rate declines with the duration of unemployment, but the relative importance of workers' search behavior and employers' recruitment behavior remains unclear. We use monthly search diaries from Swiss public employment offices to shed new light on this issue. Search diaries record...

This report sheds light on major labor market issues and challenges that Morocco faces. It is the first phase of the programmatic jobs program jointly undertaken with the government of Morocco. The report is a jobs diagnostic that analyzes microdata mainly from Labor Force Surveys and employs...

Viele Jobwechsel misslingen, weil sie nicht richtig angegangen werden. Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, welche Schritte vom ersten Abwanderungsgedanken über die tatsächliche Kündigung bis hin zum Wiedereinstieg sinnvoll sind, worauf Sie dabei achten müssen und wer Ihnen hilft. Thematisiert wird die...

Die überwiegende Zahl interessanter Vakanzen für Berufseinsteiger wird nicht mehr öffentlich ausgeschrieben. Hochschulabsolventen sollten sich deshalb frühzeitig mit dem verdeckten Stellenmarkt auseinander setzen. Der erfahrene Bewerbungstrainer Dieter L. Schmich stellt die besten Wege vor,...