Job search during the covid-19 crisis

Arbeitspapier

This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the extent that effective labour market tightness increases during the first three months after the COVID outbreak. Third, they redirect their search towards less severely hit occupations, beyond what changes in vacancies would predict. Overall, these job search responses have the potential to amplify the labour demand shock.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2021:1

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Labor Demand ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
• Subject: coronavirus ; search intensity ; search direction ; labour demand shock ; job vacancies ; online job board

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hensvik, Lena ; Le Barbanchon, Thomas ; Rathelot, Roland
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/246036
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