Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/322818 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers Series No. 09-35
Publisher: 
Utrecht University, Utrecht School of Economics, Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute, Utrecht
Abstract: 
Burgess (1993) finds that job finding rates for the unemployed do not move proportionately to changes in the overall hiring rate. Burgess hints at employed job seekers that start looking in tight conditions and crowd out the unemployed. But he leaves the search behaviour of firms unaddressed. Russo et al. (2000) and Russo et al. (2001), however, shows that firms switch their preferred recruitment channel in changing labour market conditions. We introduce recruitment channels in a search model and find an additional mechanism through which the unemployed obtain less than their 'fair share' of the job offers. We then test our model's predictions using panel data from the Netherlands and find support for this hypothesis.
Subjects: 
employer search
job search
recruitment channels
tightness
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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