Title: Searching, hiring and labour market conditions
Abstract: 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.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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