Employers search: Are employee referrals effective?

Martina Rebien

Economics Bulletin, 2019, vol. 39, issue 4, 2499-2506

Abstract: This is the first study that utilizes the unplanned delay in recruitment to identify the effectiveness of employee referrals in firms' recruiting processes. I find that the use of referrals reduces the probability of delays in recruitment and the duration of the delay in the case that the firm chooses a small number of parallel search strategies. Therefore, employee referrals do have a beneficial effect on the recruiting process if they are used solely or in addition to very few other search strategies.

Keywords: employers' recruitment behaviour; employee referrals; delay in recruitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J2 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-11-03
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