This paper shows how record-value theory, a branch of statistics that deals with the timing and magnitude of extreme values in sequences of random variables, can be used to nonparametrically identify the offer distribution of wages workers face. Using NLSY wage data, I show that the data supports the hypothesis that the wage offer distribution is Pareto but rejects that it is lognormal. In addi...

Leborgne. We wish to thank the LE MONDE newspaper team for their collaboration during the specification phase. I The primary objective of this system which was developed for the LE MONDE daily newspaper, is to offer an efficient tool for a rapid and intelligent job searching service to professionals in the context of the ever increasing number of advertisements in the printed press. Traditional...

The study, evaluation of the approaches used by graduates in job search in Ghana, employed an exploratory design approach by surveying both employed and unemployed graduates using a questionnaire. A total of 132 employed graduates and 128 unemployed graduates were reached for the study.The findings of the study revealed that both the employed and unemployed graduates consider use of application...

The academic job search process, and the applications and reference letters that are constitutive elements of that process, are central to the creation and re-creation of a discipline. Disciplines and departments renew and re-create themselves—or do not, and merely replicate themselves—through hirings. A job search process can serve to hinder changes in the membership, culture, “look,” and the ...

Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case This paper analyses the relationship between social networks and the job search behaviour of individuals. Networking is not only based on friends and relatives but also on neighbourhood. The geographic closeness is associated to social interactions. Individuals who are in physical and soci...