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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 …Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the ….S. corporation, and test various predictions of theoretical models of labor market referrals. We find that referred candidates are …
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Learning through coworker referrals
Glitz, Albrecht; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2019
In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish … into the same establishments and provide evidence that these mobility patterns are likely driven by coworker referrals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997660
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Job search, human capital and wage inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
This paper constructs and quantitatively assesses an equilibrium search model with on-the- job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers differ in their innate abilities and firms in their productivities. Wages are dispersed because of search frictions and workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009661663
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Prices, productivity, and wage bargaining in open economies
Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2008 - rev.
According to the standard union bargaining model, unemployment benefits should have big effects on wages, but product market prices and productivity should play no role in the wage bargain. We formulate an alternative strategic bargaining model, where labour and product market conditions...
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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation
Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019
According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026458
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Should I train or should I go? : human resources, human capital, turnover and service quality
Georgiadis, Andreas; Kornelakis, Andreas - 2024
our framework. The results highlight the significant role of collective human capital and voluntary turnover in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581054
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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
efforts to understand the relationships among employment referrals, match quality, wage trajectories, and turnover. Using a … levels. -- referrals ; networks ; personnel ; wage mobility ; turnover …The limited nature of data on employment referrals in large business and household surveys has so far impeded our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580858
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The unequal cost of job loss across countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - 2022
We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and...
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The unequal consequences of job loss across countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - 2022
We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design applied to seven matched employer-employee datasets. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256473
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The Distributional Impacts of Worker Reallocation : Evidence from Europe
Bluedorn, John C.; Caselli, Francesca; Hansen, Niels-Jakob - 2022
Using individual-level data for 30 European countries between 1983 and 2019, we document the extent and earning consequences of workers’ reallocation across occupations and industries and how these outcomes vary with individual-level characteristics, namely (i) education, (ii) gender, and...
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