TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Forsythe, Eliza
AU  - Weinstein, Russell
        TI  - Recruiting Intensity, Hires, and Vacancies: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
        PY  - 2021/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14138
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14138
        AB  - We investigate employer recruiting behavior, using detailed firm-level data from a national survey of employers hiring recent college graduates. We show employers adjust recruiting effort, hiring standards, and compensation with the business cycle, beliefs about tightness, and their own hiring plans. We then show that firms expending greater recruiting effort hire more individuals per vacancy. The results suggest that when firms want to increase hires they adjust vacancies and recruiting intensity per vacancy, which may help explain the breakdown in the standard matching function during the Great Recession. Our measure of recruiting effort explains roughly 16% of the residual elasticity of the vacancy yield with respect to hires.
        KW  - recruiting intensity
KW  - vacancy yield
KW  - labor market search and matching
KW  - recent college graduates
        ER  -