TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hensvik, Lena
AU  - Barbanchon, Thomas Le
AU  - Rathelot, Roland
        TI  - Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis
        PY  - 2020/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13237
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13237
        AB  - This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the scope and direction of search change. Job seekers respond to the shock by searching less intensively and by redirecting their search towards less severely hit occupations, beyond what changes in labour demand would predict. The redirection of job search changes relative hiring costs, and has the potential to amplify labour demand shifts.
        KW  - job vacancies
KW  - labour demand shock
KW  - search direction
KW  - search intensity
KW  - coronavirus
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - online job board
        ER  -