Competing for jobs: How COVID-19 changes search behaviour in the labour market

Arbeitspapier

Little is known so far about how the corona crisis has changed search processes in the labour market. We provide insights on labour market competition, reallocation of applications and potential sullying effects by analysing data from the LinkedIn professional network for Germany. We find that competition among workers for jobs strongly increased. The data allow us to trace that back to additional job seekers rather than higher search intensity. Furthermore, the LinkedIn data show that people from industries particularly affected by the crisis apply much more frequently and there has been a substantial shift in the target industries for applications. Finally, we find that during the crisis applications are made significantly more often below and significantly less often above a person's level of seniority.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IAB-Discussion Paper ; No. 33/2020

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
• Subject: application behaviour ; COVID-19 ; reallocation ; vacancies

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bauer, Anja ; Keveloh, Kristin ; Mamertino, Mariano ; Weber, Enzo
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
• (where): Nürnberg
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/234291
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET