Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
2024/10/29 by Hunter Ng, Ng, Hunter · 10 voices
#econ.GN
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.21771
Abstract
This study investigates the emerging phenomenon of "ghost hiring" or "ghost jobs", where employers advertise job openings without intending to fill them. Using a novel dataset from Glassdoor and employing a LLM-BERT technique, I find that up to 21% of job ads may be ghost jobs, and this is particularly prevalent in specialized industries and in larger firms. The trend could be due to the low marginal cost of posting additional job ads and to maintain a pipeline of talents. After adjusting for yearly trends, I find that ghost jobs can explain the recent disconnect in the Beveridge Curve in the past fifteen years. The results show that policy-makers should be aware of such a practice as it causes significant job fatigue and distorts market signals.
Discussions
- Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs [hn, 394 points, 567 comments]
- i'm surprised the number of listings of ghost jobs is *only* 21% arxiv.org/abs/2410.21771 [bsky, 17 points, 3 comments]
- Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs [pdf] [hn, 5 points, 0 comments]
- A number of people have reached out to me saying it's tough to find a new job at the moment. Ghost jobs are a real problem, and I think it's getting worse. The end result is that everyone will progr [bsky, 3 points, 1 comments]
- Hackernews has a lot of chatter on this paper that claims 21% of job ads maybe for 'ghost jobs', i.e. jobs that a company has no intention of filling. arxiv.org/abs/2410.21771 [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- Today, I read an interesting aRXIV paper which explores the effects of “ghost jobs”. Using AI approaches and Glassdoor reviews data, the author finds that up to 21% of job listings could be ghost jobs [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- According to this paper about 20% of job postings are "ghost jobs": https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21771. If I ever find out about a company doing this, I'm putting it on my "never want to work with them [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs view on hacker news [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- "up to 21% of job ads may be ghost jobs" arxiv.org/abs/2410.21771 well no wonder, since it costs little to post an ad, companies get a stream of applicants just in case, they get free publicity and gi [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136469 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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