Searching, hiring and labour market conditions

This paper attempts to investigate how employers' recruitment strategies (in terms of the recruitment method used and the applicants' characteristics) change in response to different conditions on the relevant regional labour market. Our empirical results show that the hiring of unemployed...

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Published inLabour economics Vol. 8; no. 5; pp. 553 - 571
Main Authors Russo, Giovanni, Gorter, Cees, Schettkat, Ronald
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.12.2001
Elsevier
SeriesLabour Economics
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Hiring
Recruitment methods
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Recruitment methods
Hiring
J63
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Summary:This paper attempts to investigate how employers' recruitment strategies (in terms of the recruitment method used and the applicants' characteristics) change in response to different conditions on the relevant regional labour market. Our empirical results show that the hiring of unemployed candidates and the use of the public employment service are events more likely to happen in a slack regional labour market. Moreover, the use of advertisements and the hiring of already-employed job seekers are more likely to occur in the presence of excess demand on the relevant regional labour market. This supports the view that shifts in recruitment strategies may be driven by cyclical fluctuations in expected variations (in both the size and composition) of the pool of potential applicants.
ISSN:0927-5371
1879-1034
DOI:10.1016/S0927-5371(01)00044-6