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of the overall state of the economy, on firm and immediate workplace characteristics, and on managers' personal …
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for their employment practices, by investigating how the structural arrangements granting employees a role in firm boards … employment practices primarily through the power mechanism, contingent on the employees' ability to enforce their preferences … with regard to hiring and other employment practices. We contribute to this scholarly work by (1) explicating why employees …
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The job finding rate declines with the duration of unemployment. While this is a well established fact, the reasons are still disputed. We use monthly search diaries from Swiss public employment offices to shed new light on this issue. Search diaries record all applications sent by job seekers,...
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This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model's crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous selection threshold for new hires. With cross-sectional dispersion calibrated to microeconomic...
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employers face uncertainty about the productivity of job candidates. We examine theoretically and with laboratory experiments … three key questions related to hiring via referrals when employees have private information about their productivity. First …
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This field experiment explores whether single and married female job candidates' un/employment histories differentially affect their chances of obtaining interviews through China's Internet job boards. It also considers whether firms' discrimination against, and/or preference for, candidates who...
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This study estimates and decomposes recruitment elasticity, a key measure of employer market power, across job …-matching stages using data from Japan's largest job-matching intermediary. On average, recruitment elasticity is negative but not …
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Using a unique new survey, we study the relationship between search effort and outcomes for employed and non-employed workers. We find that the employed fare better than the non-employed in job search: they receive more offers per application and are offered higher pay even after controlling for...
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employers in the retail industry would be most damaging, with about 24 million euros in annual lost wages for new hires, and an …
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We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...
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