Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods: The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across organisations at ...

*The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia or the Federal Reserve System. he hiring and firing decisions of individual businesses are one of the drivers behind movements in the unemployment rate during expansions and recessions. Whether a recession is driven by large job losses or weak hiring will grea...

While many organizations use business intelligence and analytics in business functions including Supply Chain, Finance, Accounting and Marketing, they have taken little advantage of this in the Human Resources (HR) management area. Seeing tremendous opportunities in the use of analytics, businesses are taking big measures, such as creating a culture of making critical decisions validated by dat...

In an online labor marketplace (OLM) employers post jobs, receive freelancer applications, and make hiring decisions. Once hired, freelancers complete the tasks online and receive their payment along with feedback about their performance. Because of the natural heterogeneity that appears in task categories, skills, and the latent abilities of freelancers and employers, these markets stuffer fro...