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Employers' search: are employee referrals effective?

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"This is the first study that utilizes the unplanned delay in recruitment to identify the effectiveness of employee referrals in firms' recruiting processes. I find that the use of referrals reduces the probability of delays in recruitment and the duration of the delay in the case that the firm chooses a small number of parallel search strategies. Therefore, employee referrals do have a beneficial effect on the recruiting process if they are used solely or in addition to very few other search strategies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Rebien, M. (2019): Employers' search: are employee referrals effective? In: Economics Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 4, p. 2499-2506., accepted on October 13, 2019.

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