Empirical Search and Recruiting

Catalog description

Empirical analysis of the labor market matching process, including informal and network-based search as well as ads and applications. Effects of job ad content, including wage posting, vertical and horizontal skill requests and job/worker characteristics on applicant pools. Selection of candidates from applicant pools and the role of testing, interviews, and managerial discretion. Job search by workers, including the intensity, timing, methods and direction of search activity. Comparing sequential versus nonsequential search and recruiting methods. Scope of search in geographical and task space. This course draws heavily on newly-available data on search and recruiting taken from online job boards and online labor markets (OLMs).