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The survival of unique corporate cultures
Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2016
the candidate and in the second case, executives who support the firm's culture constitute a minority of available …
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The unaccompanied refugee minors and the Swedish labour market
Çelikaksoy, Aycan; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2015
More unaccompanied refugee children arrive to and get a residence permit in Sweden than in any other country in Europe. The number of children who arrives is increasing fast. The Swedish experiences are therefore of great interest also for other countries. In this paper we study the labour...
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Is there a role for higher education institutions in improving the quality of first employment?
McGuinness, Séamus; Whelan, Adele; Bergin, Adele - 2016
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....
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Crowding out in the labour market : do employers lend a hand?
Verhaest, Dieter; Bogaert, Elene; Dereymaeker, Jeroen; … - 2016
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...
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What makes an employer?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
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Recruitment policies, job-filling rates and matching efficiency
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Gartner, Hermann; Kaas, Leo - 2020
Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …
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The interplay between organizational structure, culture and employees' socio-emotional skills within their social capital
Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Altmann, Jörn; Heshmati, … - 2022
Organization theorists identify organizational social capital as one of the primary building blocks of a potentially powerful resource for improving organizational performance. However, little is known about the impact of the socio-emotional skills of the employees within their social capital...
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Social networks and the labour market mismatch
Kalfa, Eleni; Piracha, Matloob - 2015
This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a dynamic random effects probit model, we show that social capital exacerbates the incidence of...
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Measuring the importance of labor market networks
Hellerstein, Judith K. (contributor);  … - 2008
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
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Countercyclical recruiting rates and the value of jobs
Yashiv, Eran - 2015
U.S. CPS gross flows data indicate that in recessions firms actually increase their hiring rates from the pools of the unemployed and out of the labor force. Why so? The paper provides an explanation by studying the optimal recruiting behavior of the representative firm. This behavior is a...
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