A. N. Fernando, Niharika Singh, Gabriel Tourek, Martin Abel, Jie Bai, Justin Bloesch, Emily Breza, Taryn Dinkelman, Kevin Donovan, Joe Kaboski, Asim Khwaja, Maciej Kotowski, Kanika Mahajan, Kunal Mangal, David McKenzie, Suresh Naidu, Amanda Pal-lais, Patrizio Piraino, Gautam Rao, Mahvish Shaukat
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Despite the growing prominence of online job portals, firms remain reluctant to hire outside traditional recruitment networks. We find that experimentally providing firms with a combination of advertising and the ability to verify applicant identity increases portal-based hiring by 68 percent and the likelihood of filling a vacancy by 11 percent. Advertising attracts more skilled applicants, while verification enables the screening of unfamiliar applicants. Portal-based hires are retained beyond the standard assessment period, suggesting that they are well suited to the vacancies. Firms assigned only advertising also attract more skilled applicants, but providing neither advertising nor verification alone increases hiring. (JEL D22, J23, J24, J63, M51, O15)
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