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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented …
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The decline in job-to-job flows : an aging workface and declining entrepreneurship explain the decline in job-to-job flows only partially
Hyatt, Henry R. - 2015
, such as job search and hiring costs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433268
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Can Early-Stage Startups Hire Talented Scientists and Engineers? Ability, Preferences, and Employee Job Choice
Roach, Michael; Sauermann, Henry - 2022
Early-stage technology startups rely critically on talented scientists and engineers to commercialize new technologies. And yet, they compete with large technology firms to hire the best workers. Theories of ability sorting predict that high ability workers will choose jobs in established firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077127
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Hiring in border regions : experimental and qualitative evidence from a recruiter survey in Luxembourg
Gutfleisch, Tamara; Samuel, Robin - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-13
and cross-border commuters. However, we know little about recruiters' workforce needs and hiring practices in cross … on the role of country of residence in recruiters' hiring intentions against foreigners. Luxembourg presents a rarely … studied but highly relevant case for hiring practices owing to a combination of a strong economy, strict labour market …
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Double matching : social contacts in a labour market with on-the-job search ; conference paper
Zaharieva, Anna - 2013
This paper develops a labour market matching model with heterogeneous firms, on-thejob search and referrals. Social capital is endogenous, so that better connected workers bargain higher wages for a given level of productivity. This is a positive effect of referrals on reservation wages. At the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340568
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Labour market dynamics in Germany : hirings, separations, and job-to-job transitions over the business cycle
Bachmann, Ronald (contributor) - 2005
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of labour market dynamics in Western Ger- many by looking at gross worker flows. To do so, we use a subsample of the registry data collected by the German social security system, the IAB employment sample, for the time period 1975-2001. The...
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Do informal referrals lead to better matches? : evidence from a firm's employee referral system
Brown, Meta; Setren, Elizabeth; Topa, Giorgio - 2014
hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355700
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Do informal referrals leads to better matches? : evidence from a firm's employee referral system
Brown, Meta; Setren, Elizabeth; Topa, Giorgio - 2012
The limited nature of data on employment referrals in large business and household surveys has so far impeded our efforts to understand the relationships among employment referrals, match quality, wage trajectories, and turnover. Using a new firm-level data set that includes explicit information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580858
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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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The Cyclicality of Separation and Job Finding Rates
Fujita, Shigeru - 2019
This paper uses CPS gross flow data, adjusted for margin error and time aggregation error, to analyze the business cycle dynamics of separation and job finding rates and to quantify their contributions to overall unemployment variability. Cyclical changes in the separation rate lead those of...
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