Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
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IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy
No 2015:14: What are the determinants of hiring? The role of demand and supply factors
Stefan Eriksson () and Karolina Stadin ()
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Stefan Eriksson: Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Postal: P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Karolina Stadin: Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Postal: P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Abstract: In this paper, we study the relative importance of demand and supply factors for hiring. We use a search-matching model with imperfect competition in the product market to derive an equation for total hiring in a local labor market and estimate it on Swedish panel data. If product markets are imperfectly competitive, product demand shocks should have a direct effect on employment. Our main finding is that product demand is important for hiring. This highlights the importance of taking imperfect competition in the product market into account in studies of employment dynamics and hiring. We also find that the number of unemployed workers has a positive effect on hiring, confirming the importance of search frictions. Hence, both demand and supply factors seem to matter for hiring.
Keywords: Hiring; search-matching; imperfect competition; unemployment
38 pages, June 17, 2015
Note: Publicerad i: Applied Economics, 2017, vol. 49, no. 50, pp.5144-5165, https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2017.1302058
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