Effects of Mandatory Job Postings on Labor Market Outcomes
The DEMS Economics Seminar series is proud to host
Fabrizio Colella
(USI University, Lugano)
with A. Marcato and R. Lalive
ABSTRACT
This paper studies the effects of a Job Vacancy Notice Obligation (JVNO) policy, which aims to support resident job seekers in high-unemployment occupations in Switzerland. Specifically, this policy mandates firms that want to hire in these occupations to post vacancies on a designated online local platform and prohibits them from advertising the vacancy elsewhere for five days. Adopting a regression-discontinuity design (RDD) which contrasts occupations on either side of the unemployment threshold, we find a significant increase in the number of vacancies posted as well as of posting firms for treated occupations. These effects are stronger for firms that had never posted online before the policy was introduced. We also find significant and strong increases in employment, suggesting that increased posting is not just due to firms switching from informal hiring to posting jobs online. The JVNO policy exhibits substantial positive effects on match efficiency by bolstering job search programs for unemployed workers.
The seminar will be in presence, Seminar Room Demografica 2062, Building U7-2nd floor