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Recruitment in Recovery

Recruitment in Recovery. Mark Sanders Utrecht School of Economics, Netherlands and Riccardo Welters University of Newcastle, Australia. Motivation. Outflow from unemployment fails to increase in proportion to the hiring rate. Why? Self Selection/Sorting Signaling Recruiting Strategies

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Recruitment in Recovery

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  1. Recruitment in Recovery Mark Sanders Utrecht School of Economics, Netherlands and Riccardo Welters University of Newcastle, Australia

  2. Motivation • Outflow from unemployment fails to increase in proportion to the hiring rate. Why? • Self Selection/Sorting • Signaling • Recruiting Strategies • Search Behavior

  3. In the Literature • Burgess (1993): Unemployed job-seekers benefit less than proportional from hiring rate increases due to increasing competition from employed job seekers. • Russo (2000): Firms switch to more expensive advertising in tight labor markets to maintain a target arrival rate of applicants per vacancy.

  4. Our Main Argument • Firm and job-seeker search behavior interact. • This interaction helps explain why the outflow rates move less than proportional to hiring rates. • And has important ALM policy implications.

  5. Facts for the Netherlands • Unemployed rely more on LEO (72% vs. 13%) than employed. • Employed rely more on adds (54% vs. 27%) than unemployed. • In tightening markets: • Ads become more (36-49%) and LEO less (11-8%) effective in matching. • Ads are more frequently used by firms, LEO less.

  6. Strategy • Build a search model that: • Predicts the search channel switch • Predicts the recruitment channel switch • Allows for the interaction to produce counter cyclical outflow/hiring rates for unemployed. • Test these predictions in a dataset for the Netherlands

  7. Firing Search Channel 2 The Model Employed On-the-Job Searchers Choose search effort in Channel 2 Unemployed Searchers Choose search effort in both Channels Open Search Channel 1 Closed Recruitment Channel 2 Recruitment Channel 1 Hires Firms Open vacancies and choose recruitment channel

  8. Testable Hypotheses • Hypothesis I: In tight labor markets OJS increases, increasing the probability of filling a vacancy in channel 2. • Hypothesis II: In tight labor markets firms therefore switch to channel 2. In tight labor markets unemployed job searchers increase total search effort. The allocation of search effort between channels depends on firm recruitment channel switch (into channel 2) and the on-the-job search response (out of channel 2). The effect of tightness on outflow is ambiguous. • Hypothesis III: The least competitive unemployed searchers will switch to channel 1 first/more.

  9. The Data • OSA Supply Panel: • 4.000 persons 1994-2000 pooled • On Job Search yes/no • Search channel information only for unemployed • OSA Demand Panel: • Only one year used (2001) 800 firms

  10. The Results • In a logit on OJS(1,0) we find the vacancy rate has a positive and significant impact controlling for education, sector, contract type and experience. This supports HI. • In an ordered logit on the importance of open recruitment channels (1-5) we find the vacancy rate has a positive and significant impact, controlling for size class, private-public and educational level of workforce. • Similarly for the importance of the public channel (1-5) the effect is insignificant (not negative!). • But in a logit on preference for the public channel (1,0) the vacancy rate again has a negative significant impact. Supporting HII. • In a logit on choosing open search channels for unemployed job searchers we find the aggregate vacancy rate has a small positive impact, controlling for education (+), search duration (0), self-confidence (-) and interaction between education and confidence (mixed). No strong support for HIII.

  11. The Results • We can accept HI and II. • But must we reject HIII? • Institutional changes • Other channels are not considered • “Most intensely used channel” may not be the relevant dependent variable

  12. Hard Conclusions The model works so our logic is sound. The data supports the key assumptions. But… …to prove our point: We need to probe the data further Control for institutional change Improve our tightness (per channel) measure Run an ordered logit on all possible channels Bring in search intensity Other suggestions?

  13. Tentative Conclusions Iff we can prove our point: Unemployed job searchers require assistance in tightening labor markets to compete in the open channel So that ALM-policy effort should be pro-cyclical.

  14. The Model Matching in closed (1) and open (2) channel: Flow probability of filling a vacancy through (1) and (2):

  15. The Model Job finding flow probability for unemployed JS: Job finding flow probability for employed JS:

  16. Firing Rate=λ(1-u) Hiring Rate=φ2e+(φ1u+φ2u-φ2e)u The Model Employed (1-u)L On-the-Job Searchers Unemployed Searchers uL Channel 1 φ1uuL Channel 2 φ2e(1-u)L +φ2uuL

  17. The Model Firms choose search effort per channel: First Order Condition on search effort: sf1,2 is negative in channel specific flow cost and the marginal effect on the probability of filling the vacancy through that channel and positive in interest rate and job value as well as, obviously, the probability of filling the vacancy through that channel.

  18. The Model Firms open vacancies in both channels: Together with the FOC his implies: As the marginal probability is decreasing in the vacancy rate: Higher job value increases number of vacancies in both channels. Higher costs will reduce vacancies in that channel.

  19. The Model Value of a filled vacancy (job): Implies: Allows for expressing optimal search effort per channel in aggregate variables only. Effort in a channel depends positively on the effort of job searchers in that channel. Tightening markets Will cause firms to shift towards the open channel.

  20. The Model Unemployed Job Searchers: Implies: Which implies that unemployed job searchers set effort such that marginal probabilities equalize. This implies they switch to channel 1 when employed job searchers search effort increases in channel 2.

  21. The Model Employed Job Searchers: Setting effort to maximize yields: Which implies that employed job searchers set effort in response to a wage mark-up and reduce effort when unemployment or the search effort of unemployed in channel 2 increases.

  22. The Model Solve for equilibrium wage: Which yields: And closes the model.

  23. The Results Table 1: Job search decision employees, pooled 1992-2000, clustered1

  24. The Results Table 2: Recruitment intensity in open channels, 2001

  25. The Results Table 3: Recruitment intensity in public channels, 2001

  26. The Results Table 4: Recruitment preference for public channel, 2001

  27. Table 5: Channel choice unemployed job searcher, pooled 1994-2000, clustered1

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