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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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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 …
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social networks, which means that hiring through referrals should be less frequent in expansions. On the other hand, firms …
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costless informal channel, i.e. referrals. There is a continuum of heterogeneous vacancies in our model where every firm with …'s size and formal search intensity can also be observed for firms that don’t use referrals; (4) Firms that use referrals as a … search channel invest less effort into formal search compared to firms that don't use referrals; (5) Larger firms are less …
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costless informal channel, i.e. referrals. There is a continuum of heterogeneous vacancies in our model where every frm with an …'s size and formal search intensity can also be observed for firms that don't use referrals; (4) Firms that use referrals as a … search channel invest less effort into formal search compared to firms that don't use referrals; (5) Larger firms are less …
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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'...
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The Solow condition is examined in an intertemporal model that blends the shirking and the turnover models of … efficiency wages with managerial supervision. It is shown that the Solow condition does not hold when shirking and turnover costs … are considered. The Solow condition can be a possible outcome when managerial productivity offsets shirking and turnover …
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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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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....
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We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...
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