frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented …

-sided heterogeneity, multiple search channels and endogenous recruitment effort. The estimation reveals that networks are the most cost … channel, facilitate hiring workers of higher ability, and matter most for worker-firm sorting. Although the public employment … agency provides the lowest hiring probability, its removal has sizeable consequences, with aggregate employment declining by …

employers is very correlated, but that employers’ hiring behavior is more idiosyncratic. Workers discriminate using the race and …

large-scale data from high-stakes admission and hiring processes, where candidates are quasi-randomly assigned to evaluators …' votes of up to 40% and distorting final admission and hiring decisions. Our findings are in line with a contrast effect …

seekers and firms behave during the recruitment process. In this paper we identify new patterns about the recruitment … planned search period and decreases thereafter, why most applicants arrive early in the recruitment process, and why the …

treated employers struck better wage bargains for themselves. Using a structural model of bidding and hiring, we find that the …

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the … abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its … effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a triple difference methodology the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job …

-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy …