Hiring is a costly activity reflecting firms' investment in their workers. Micro-data shows that hiring costs involve … hiring frictions interacting with price frictions. This mechanism generates strong propagation and amplification of all key … production disruption. Thus, cyclical fluctuations in the value of output, induced by price frictions, have consequences for the …

This paper evaluates the impact of an unexpected temporary hiring credit targeted at workers paid below 1.6 times the … job created for the government was around zero. The employment effect was stronger in areas where recruitment was easier …. Although the hiring credit was not conditional on net job creation, it did not increase churning of workers. Nevertheless, we …

This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of … disability and gender shapes employers' hiring behavior by occupational context and gender segregation. We use data from a field … equality influencing hiring practices but not to declared ambitions for diversity or gender equality legislation …

-shot hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job …

the hiring process. However, whether overweight job applicants also face employer discrimination is still an open question …-dominated occupations. Our experimental design allows us to disentangle whether employers act on attractiveness or weight when hiring. For …

firms to differ both in the wages they offer new hires and the wages required to poach their employees. Expected hiring … wages are modeled as the sum of a worker fixed effect, a fixed effect for the "destination" firm hiring the worker, and a … nest the reduced form for hiring wages delivered by semi-parametric formulations of the sequential auction model of Postel …