Tag
vacancy_costs
3 findings
Labour & employmentCandidate Pre-Screening and Filtering ServicesTreatment increased permanent vacancy creation by 24% (0.047 vacancies per firm, p < 0.01) and pre-screening service usage by 58% (3.4 percentage point increase, p < 0.01), while reducing organic jobseeker applications received directly by firms by 39% (2.67 fewer applications, p < 0.01).RCTLabour & employmentFirm-Directed Active Labor Market PolicyTreated firms exhibited a 24% increase in permanent contract vacancy postings (0.047 additional vacancies over a 0.199 control mean, p < 0.01) and a 10.2% increase in permanent contract hires of registered jobseekers (0.046 additional hires over 0.450 control mean, p < 0.05), generating 17.5 additional theoretical workdays per firm (p < 0.05).RCTLabour & employmentLow-Productivity Cost OffsetsVacancies created by treated firms showed no difference in offered wages (log wage diff = -0.017, p > 0.10) or required experience, but were 12.1 percentage points more likely to be low-skilled/unqualified positions (p < 0.01), confirming that vacancy cost reductions selectively unlock lower-productivity job creation.RCT