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Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833883
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Revisiting the Matching Function
Kohlbrecher, Britta - 2014
comovement between matches, unemployment, and vacancies in dynamic labor market models: either by assuming a standard Cobb …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046221
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Search Frictions on Product and Labor Markets : Money in the Matching Function
Lehmann, Etienne - 2007
This paper builds a macroeconomic model of equilibrium unemployment in which firms persistently face difficulties in selling their production and this affects their decisions to create jobs. Due to search-frictions on the product market, equilibrium unemployment is a U-shaped function of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777086
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Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages : Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data
Kettemann, Andreas - 2018
unusually informative data comprising detailed information on vacancies, the establishments posting the vacancies and the … workers eventually filling the vacancies. We find that vacancy durations are negatively correlated with the starting wage and … confirm previous findings that growing establishments fill their vacancies faster. To understand the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909969
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Recruiting Intensity and Hiring Practices : Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Evidence
Lochner, Benjamin - 2020
, we connect the fact that shrinking establishments post more vacancies and are less selective than those with a constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823305
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Revisiting the Hypothesis of High Discounts and High Unemployment
Martellini, Paolo - 2019
We revisit the hypothesis that labor market fluctuations are driven by shocks to the discount rate. Using a model in which the UE and the EU rates are endogenous, we show that an increase in the discount rate leads to a decline in both the UE and the EU rates. In the data, though, the UE and EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867149
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Recruiting Intensity, Hires, and Vacancies : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Forsythe, Eliza; Weinstein, Russell - 2021
more individuals per vacancy. The results suggest that when firms want to increase hires they adjust vacancies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244265
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Firm-Level Hiring Difficulties : Persistence, Business Cycle and Local Labour Market Influences
Fabling, Richard - 2013
We examine the correlates of reported hiring difficulties at the firm level using linked employer-employee and panel survey data over 2005-2011, focussing on the relative influence of firm-level characteristics, persistence, the business cycle and local labour market liquidity. At both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077315
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The Impact of Arab Spring on Hiring and Separation Rates in the Tunisian Labour Market
Haouas, Ilham - 2015
This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to 2012. The data provides information about important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028192
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Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions
Gautier, Pieter A. - 2011
We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the max-mean wage differential. The latter measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130451