Arbeitspapier
Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?
This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. They combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of new matches and their wages. The authors confirm these findings using vacancy data, by explicitly comparing match outcomes of online and non-online recruits. Further results show that online recruiting not only raises the number of applicants and the share of unsuitable candidates per vacancy, but also induces employers to post more vacancies.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 21-002
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Publicly Provided Goods: General
Telecommunications
Single Equation Models: Single Variables: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
- Subject
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Matching
online search
information frictions
recruiting channels
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Gürtzgen, Nicole
Lochner, Benjamin
Pohlan, Laura
van den Berg, Gerard J.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
- (where)
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Mannheim
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Gürtzgen, Nicole
- Lochner, Benjamin
- Pohlan, Laura
- van den Berg, Gerard J.
- ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
Time of origin
- 2021