Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis

Lena Hensvik (), Thomas Le Barbanchon and Roland Rathelot
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Lena Hensvik: Uppsala University

No 13237, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the scope and direction of search change. Job seekers respond to the shock by searching less intensively and by redirecting their search towards less severely hit occupations, beyond what changes in labour demand would predict. The redirection of job search changes relative hiring costs, and has the potential to amplify labour demand shifts.

Keywords: job vacancies; labour demand shock; search direction; search intensity; coronavirus; COVID-19; online job board (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J21 J22 J23 J62 J63 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2020-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lma, nep-mac and nep-ore
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Published - published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 194, 104349

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Working Paper: Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis (2020)
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