Recruitment channel use and applicant arrival: An empirical analysis

Piet Rietveld, Cees Gorter, Peter Nijkamp and Giovanni Russo ()
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Cees Gorter: Free University, Department of Regional Economics, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Giovanni Russo: Utrecht University, Department of Institutional Economics, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands

Empirical Economics, 2000, vol. 25, issue 4, 673-697

Abstract: This paper focuses on the recruitment behaviour of firms at the extensive margin; we empirically explore the relationship between employer search strategies and the number of applicants by means of (reduced form) two-equations simultaneous models. The empirical analysis is carried out on a rich micro data set on Dutch employer recruitment behaviour. Our empirical analysis reveals that the economic conditions prevailing on the labour market influence employer search activity at the extensive margin. In particular, we see that in tight (slack) labour markets characterised by excess demand (supply) of labour, the flow of applicants is smaller (larger). Employers react to the shortage (excess) of applicants by using more (less) often advertisements. This recruitment channel appears to trigger a significantly larger flow of applicants.

Keywords: recruitment; ·; labour; demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-01-10
Note: received: December 1997/Final version received: June 2000
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