SECRET SEARCH
研究了组织在招聘高管时,是公开候选人身份(公开搜寻)还是保密(秘密搜寻)更优。模型发现秘密搜寻下工资更低,且当候选人质量不太重要时组织更偏好秘密搜寻。
Abstract For high‐profile positions, should applicant identities be made public within the organization (“open search”) or kept confidential (“secret search”)? We construct a model where an organization seeks to hire, but where candidates' abilities are private information unless it uses open search. Rejected applicants, under open search, suffer disutility. We find the following: Salaries are lower under secret search, the expected ability of applicants decreases as the posted (open search) salary increases, secret search is preferred by organizations where quality of candidate is relatively unimportant, and organizations will, for some parameter values, choose secret search even when open search is more efficient.