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Cheap search, picky workers? : evidence from a field experiment

Mayr, Harald - 2022

Search frictions impede the labor market. Despite this indisputable fact, it is a priori unclear how job search costs affect search duration and unemployment: lower search costs make it easier to find a job, reducing search duration and unemployment, but may also increase the reservation wage,...

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How effective are hiring subsidies to reduce long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...

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Hunting for talent : Firm-driven labor market search in the United States

Black, Ines; Hasan, Sharique; Koning, Rembrand - 2021

This article analyzes the phenomenon of firm-driven labor market search—or outbound recruiting—where recruiters are increasingly “hunting for talent” rather than passively relying on workers to search for and apply to job vacancies. Our research methodology leverages three approaches. We...

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How effective are hiring subsidies in reducing long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers older than 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on...

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How effective are hiring subsidies to reduce long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021

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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition

Albert, Christoph - 2017

This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...

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Formal search and referrals from a firm's perspective

Rebien, Martina; Stops, Michael; Zaharieva, Anna - 2017

This study explores the relationship between firms' characteristics and their recruitment strategies. We propose a … model based on a search and matching framework with two search channels: a formal channel which is costly for firms and a … Germany reporting information about their most recent recruitment case. Based on the finding that firm size and productivity …

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Formal search and referrals from a firm's perspective

Rebien, Martina; Stops, Michael; Zaharieva, Anna - 2017

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Do Friends and Relatives Really Help in Getting a Good Job?

Pellizzari, Michele - 2010

based on the Italian liberalization of the labor recruitment industry confirm this result …

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Worker Replacement

Menzio, Guido; Moen, Espen R. - 2009

We consider a frictional labor market in which firms want to insure their senior employees against income fluctuations and, at the same time, want to recruit new employees to fill their vacant positions. Firms can commit to a wage schedule, i.e. a schedule that specifies the wage paid by the...

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