This paper analyses employers’ recruitment strategies (in terms of search channel used, and applicants’ characteristics) in response to different conditions on the relevant regional labour market. In particular we were able to formulate two hypotheses on the nature of the adjustments: (1)...

Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in Services and Employment, an international group of leading labor economists suggests quite a different explanation....

Our results indicate that males and females have about the same probability of being hired in a mixed pool of male and female applicants, independently of the type of vacancy. The probability of hiring a candidate of a certain sex is therefore determined by the gender composition of the pool of...

This paper develops a flow model in a dual labour market with heterogeneous workers and heterogeneous jobs that allows for upward mobility or promotion flows via the internal market and demotion or deskilling flows through the state of unemployment. Dynamic impulse-responses analyses are used to...

In dit artikel belichten we het voorspelgedrag van bedrijven ten aanzien van de werkgelegenheid door de voorspellingen te confronteren met de realisaties. Er blijkt een duidelijk verband te bestaan tussen voorspellingen en realisaties. De misschattingen blijken vooral een gevolg te zijn van het...

Recent location patterns of modern firms appear to exhibit high mobility patterns with a tendency towards footlooseness. The spatial-economic dynamics - sometimes across the border - of firms is encapsulated in the term 'nomadic firms'. This paper adresses the issue of nomadic behaviour of firms...