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Pretty Vacant: Recruitment in Low‐Wage Labour Markets
Author(s) -
Manning Alan
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
oxford bulletin of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.131
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0084
pISSN - 0305-9049
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0084.0620s1747
Subject(s) - wage , labour economics , quality (philosophy) , face (sociological concept) , low wage , demographic economics , business , economics , sociology , social science , philosophy , epistemology
This paper is a study of the process by which employers in five relatively low‐wage British firms fill vacancies. It studies the determinants of the number and quality of applicants, the way in which these applicants are selected for interviews and offered jobs. The main conclusions are that thenumber of applicants is relatively small, the monetary and non‐monetaryaspects of jobs are important determinants of the number of applicants forjobs, but that firms do eventually fall virtually all vacancies. Non‐employedjob applicants have more difficulty in getting a job interview than those whoare currently employed but, once interviewed, do not appear to face any further difficulties in getting employment.