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Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Lochner, Benjamin; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2021
This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of new...
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Do digital information technologies help unemployed job seekers find a job? : evidence from the broadband internet expansion in Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018
This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by...
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Revisiting the matching function
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - 2014
negative time trend in estimated matching functions. In addition, the full nonlinear combined model generates highly asymmetric …
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Employers' search and the efficiency of matching
Pellizzari, Michele (contributor) - 2005
and make employers more satisfied with the person taken on. -- labour turnover ; matching ; recruitment ; hiring … empirical finding is related to variation in the efficiency of the matching process across occupations. A simple theoretical …' recruitment practices, shows that more intensive recruitment leads to matches of better quality that pay higher wages, last longer …
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Minimum wage increases and vacancies
Kudlyak, Marianna; Tasci, Murat; Tüzemen, Didem - 2022
Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Utilizing occupation-specific county- level vacancy data from the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online for 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage...
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Matching through search channels
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Kaas, Leo; Lochner, Benjamin - 2023
-sided heterogeneity, multiple search channels and endogenous recruitment effort. The estimation reveals that networks are the most cost …
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Search costs and the determinants of job search
Beam, Emily A. - 2020
high degree of uncertainty about their likelihood of job-finding to apply with recruitment agencies. These results …
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Duration dependence in finding a job : applications, interviews, and job offers
Zuchuat, Jeremy; Lalive, Rafael; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2023
further drivers of the observed duration patterns, such as human capital depreciation, stock-flow matching, depletion of one …
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Is it your foreign name or foreign qualifications? : an experimental study of ethnic discrimination in hiring
Carlsson, Magnus (contributor); Rooth, Dan-Olof (contributor) - 2008
This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...
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Coworkers, networks, and job search outcomes
Saygin, Perihan Ozge; Weber, Andrea; Weynandt, Michèle A. - 2014
Social networks are an important channel of information transmission in the labor market. This paper studies the mechanisms by which social networks have an impact on labor market outcomes of displaced workers. We base our analysis on administrative records for the universe of private sector...
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