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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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 21-002

Classification
Wirtschaft
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Publicly Provided Goods: General
Telecommunications
Single Equation Models: Single Variables: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
Subject
Matching
online search
information frictions
recruiting channels

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Gürtzgen, Nicole
Lochner, Benjamin
Pohlan, Laura
van den Berg, Gerard J.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2021

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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

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