Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246036 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2021:1
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the extent that effective labour market tightness increases during the first three months after the COVID outbreak. Third, they redirect their search towards less severely hit occupations, beyond what changes in vacancies would predict. Overall, these job search responses have the potential to amplify the labour demand shock.
Subjects: 
coronavirus
search intensity
search direction
labour demand shock
job vacancies
online job board
JEL: 
J22
J23
J21
J62
J63
J64
E24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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