In economics, the recruitment process of firms is largely treated as a black box. To shed light on this process, we use … across establishments relating to size, ownership, sector, and unobserved heterogeneity. Firms’ recruitment strategies have … sizeable effects on the composition of worker productivity, worker-firm match quality, the number of open vacancies, as well as …

This paper studies the role of recruitment difficulties on firms' growth by combining unique vacancy-level data from …-one-out correction at the industry-level. We find that higher hiring difficulties translate into fewer vacancies posted by firms …

for their business success. Firms that report vacancies to the Public Employment Service in the early stage of their …

for their business success. Firms that report vacancies to the Public Employment Service in the early stage of their …

with profitability: there is almost always a problem with filling vacancies with people of all educational levels in … unprofitable enterprises, which is not typical of profitable businesses. The main problems with filling vacancies according to …