Recruitment strategies and match quality - New evidence from representative linked employer-employee data

Tobias Brändle (), Philipp Grunau, Michael Haylock and Patrick Kampkötter

No 134, University of Tübingen Working Papers in Business and Economics from University of Tuebingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, School of Business and Economics

Abstract: In economics, the recruitment process of firms is largely treated as a black box. To shed light on this process, we use new representative linked employer-employee data for German private-sector establishments to explore search, selection and screening activities over the years 2012-2018. We document longitudinal changes in hiring policies and address the heterogeneity across establishments relating to size, ownership, sector, and unobserved heterogeneity. Firms' recruitment strategies have sizeable effects on the composition of worker productivity, worker-firm match quality, the number of open vacancies, as well as expected staffing problems. Finally, we outline potential mechanisms and research gaps for future work, where there is room for more detailed and causal evidence.

Keywords: Recruitment; Hiring Policies; Linked Employer-Employee Data; Worker Productivity; Vacancies; Match Quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J63 M51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.15496/publikation-41500

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