Competing for Jobs: How COVID-19 Changes Search Behaviour in the Labour Market-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Competing for Jobs: How COVID-19 Changes Search Behaviour in the Labour Market

Published:2023-12-01 Issue:4 Volume:24 Page:323-347
ISSN:1465-6485
Container-title:German Economic Review
language:en
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Author:

Bauer Anja¹^ORCID,Keveloh Kristin²,Mamertino Mariano²,Weber Enzo¹³

Affiliation:

1. Department Forecasts and Macroeconomic Analyses , Institute for Employment Research , Nürnberg , Germany

2. LinkedIn , Sunnyvale , CA , USA

3. University of Regensburg, Chair of Empirical Economics , Regensburg , Germany

Abstract

Abstract We provide insights on how job search changed in the Covid-19-crisis by analysing data from the LinkedIn professional network for Germany. We find that competition among workers for jobs strongly increased – which is due to additional job seekers rather than higher search intensity. Furthermore, the LinkedIn data show that people from industries particularly affected by the crisis applied much more frequently and there had been a substantial shift in the target industries for applications. Finally, we find that at the onset of the Covid-19-crises applications were made significantly more often below and significantly less often above a person’s level of seniority.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Economics and Econometrics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ger-2021-0010/pdf

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