Titre
Connecting Employers and Workers: Can Recommendations from the Public Employment Service Act as a Substitute for Social Contacts?
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Liechti, Fabienne
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
0950-0170
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2019-03-27
Première page
095001701983688
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
This article investigates how employers value recommendations from the public employment service (PES) compared to recommendations from a social contact for their hiring decision. The importance of social contacts in the labour market creates inequality by putting those with a weak social network at a disadvantage. It is therefore important to know if public agencies acting as labour market intermediaries (LMI) can compensate for this disadvantage. This question is investigated by means of a factorial survey experiment conducted among Swiss human resources professionals. The results demonstrate that employers value recommendations from social contacts as well as the PES. However, the latter is not able to fully substitute for the effect of social networks
Sujets
PID Serval
serval:BIB_D2B5E1A5DCDC
Date de création
2019-03-29T10:57:20.462Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-21T03:02:58Z