Die sich verschärfenden Fachkräfteengpässe erschweren zunehmend die Personalsuche. Die Besetzung offener Stellen dauert heute mit durchschnittlich 82 Tagen deutlich länger als früher. Die meisten Stellen werden sehr kurzfristig ausgeschrieben und können nicht zum Wunschtermin besetzt...

Addressing population ageing requires a rise in the activity rates of older workers. In this study, a field experiment for the period 2013-2015 in the UK, suggests that age discrimination persists at alarming levels. It shows that when two applicants engage in an identical job search, the older...

This chapter aims to provide an exhaustive list of all (i.e. 90) correspondence studies on hiring discrimination that were conducted between 2005 and 2016 (and could be found through a systematic search). For all these studies, the direction of the estimated treatment effects is tabulated. In...

"Die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland konnte in den letzten 10 Jahren zwar deutlich abgebaut werden. Dennoch stellen die Ziele der Arbeitsförderung weiterhin hohe Anforderungen an Politik und Arbeitsverwaltung. Neben den Vermittlungsaktivitäten nimmt die aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik dabei einen...

As predicted by loss aversion, numerous studies find that penalties elicit greater effort than bonuses, even when the underlying payoffs are identical. However, loss aversion also predicts that workers will demand higher wages to accept penalty contracts. In six experiments I recruited workers...

This paper analyzes labor market matching in the presence of search and informational frictions, by studying employer recruiting on college campuses. Based on employer and university interviews, I develop a model describing how firms choose target campuses given relevant frictions. The model...

This paper examines the potential role of higher education institutions in reducing labour market mismatch amongst new graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree programmes, irrespective of the field of study, will reduce the incidence of initial mismatch....

Aus dem Vorwort: Die Kernaufgabe der Fachhochschulen liegt in der wissenschaftlichen und praxisorientierten Fachkräfteausbildung. Indem sie eine wachsende und zuneh-mend heterogene Gruppe von Studierenden auf wissenschaftlicher Basis an-wendungsorientiert aus- bzw. weiterbilden, übernehmen sie...

In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...

We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...

In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...

Im zweiten Quartal 2015 wurden im Rahmen der IAB-Stellenerhebung 8.922 Betriebsstätten zu Ihren Erfahrungen bei der Personalsuche im Ausland befragt. Hochgerechnet haben über 100.000 Betriebe in Deutschland zwischen dem zweiten Quartal 2014 und dem zweiten Quartal 2015 eine Person direkt aus...

The aggregate matching (hiring) function relates gross hires to labor market tightness. Decompositions of aggregate hires show how the hiring process differs across different groups of workers and of firms. Decompositions include employment status in the previous month, age, gender and...

This paper focuses on the German labor market for older workers. It does so in comparison with other countries and with a unique focus on the role of employer incentives for retaining and hiring older workers. It argues that while employment of older German workers has improved due to changes in...

Prospectors, politicians, and the question of "progress": the first and second gold booms in Wassa -- Labor recruitment in the nineteenth century: the place of practicality -- Disrupted recruitment at the turn of the twentieth century: women, whites, and other labor agents -- Government...