Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods: The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector

Mosca, Michele

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“…Results suggest that, despite the fact that seeking work through informal networks (that is, through friends, relatives, or acquaintances of potential employers) increases the probability of receiving job offers, the use of informal channels is also associated with lower earnings than formal channels. Mosca and Pastore (2009) examine the effectiveness of job search methods in the Italian social service sector. Their findings suggest that non-profit organizations prefer informal recruitment methods to better select the most motivated workers.…”

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Determinants of the Choice of Job Search Channels by the Unemployed Using a Multivariate Probit Model

Mussida

Zanin

2020

Soc Indic Res

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We investigate factors affecting the job search channels (newspapers, agency, informal network, direct contact, internet) of unemployed individuals in Italy using a multivariate probit model. We separately analyse unemployed individuals who lost their job or who are entering the labour market for the first time (i.e., with or without previous job experience, respectively). We use cross-sectional microdata covering the 2014-2018 period. We do not find important differences in the determinants in common between unemployed individuals with and without previous job experience (such as, age, education, and citizenship). The main difference between the two samples is in the composition, with more young people in the latter group (mainly individuals in the school-to-work transition) than in the first one. We find that better-educated unemployed people have more of a multichannel attitude when searching for jobs than their counterparts. Moreover, for unemployed individuals with previous job experience, the characteristics of their last job play a crucial role in influencing the choice of search channel(s). For example, unemployed individuals from highskilled professions (that typically require the employment of better-educated individuals) choose the internet with a higher probability than other channels, while those from lowskilled professions and with experience in manufacturing have a higher probability of considering employment agencies than those in qualified professions in commercial activities and services. We have assumed that the unobservable factors affecting the decision process of a multichannel job search (estimated through the pairwise correlation coefficients across the residuals of the models) are represented by personality features of an individual, such as motivation, self-control, and preferences. A strong, positive, and significant correlation is found between job searching through the internet and direct contact with firms, but with some spatial differences between macro-areas of the country.

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“…Mosca and Pastore ( 2009 ) examine the effectiveness of job search methods in the Italian social service sector. Their findings suggest that non-profit organizations prefer informal recruitment methods to better select the most motivated workers.…”

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Determinants of the Choice of Job Search Channels by the Unemployed Using a Multivariate Probit Model

Mussida

Zanin

2020

Soc Indic Res

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“…The latter prove to be a rumor rather than a channel to reduce informational asymmetries between employers and employees. In fact, informal networks tend to generate wage premia in Anglo-Saxon countries and wage penalties in South European countries (Pistaferri 1999;Mosca and Pastore 2009;Meliciani and Radicchia 2011).…”

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The Youth Experience Gap

Pastore

2015

SpringerBriefs in Economics

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“…Again, however, it is difficult to rule out various forms of firm-level heterogeneity as an alternative to the efficiency wage explanation. Mosca and Pastore (2008) study the personnel records of organizations -public, private forprofit, and private non-profit -that provide social services in Italy. Unusual in this literature, they find that being hired through informal networks bring a substantial wage penalty (6.5%) for employees hired to public agencies.…”

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Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives

Oyer

Schaefer

2011

Handbook of Labor Economics

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This survey has benefitted from conversations with colleagues too numerous to mention. We thank Orley Ashenfelter and David Card for detailed comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods: The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector

Cited by 8 publications

References 35 publications

Determinants of the Choice of Job Search Channels by the Unemployed Using a Multivariate Probit Model

Determinants of the Choice of Job Search Channels by the Unemployed Using a Multivariate Probit Model

The Youth Experience Gap

Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives

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