How unemployment scarring affects skilled young workers: evidence from a factorial survey of Swiss recruiters

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 1 Frequencies of features of the organisations recruiting (data gathered from the recruiter survey)

Features of the organisations recruiting	Absolute frequencies	Relative frequencies in percentage (%)^a
Occupational field
Mechanics	129	17.5
Finance	126	17.1
Nursing	205	27.7
Gastronomy (service personnel)	115	15.6
Information technology	164	22.2
Firm size (number of employees)
Less than 50	82	14.0
50 to 249	248	42.3
250 to 999	113	19.3
1000 or more	130	22.2
Type of organisation recruiting ^b
Recruitment agency	174	25.1
Company (no agency)	501	72.4
Other	17	2.5
Sector ^c
Public	120	20.4
Private	438	74.5
Other	26	4.4
Gender of the respondent
Female	313	53.8
Male	269	46.2
Education-level requirement
No specific level of education required	31	4.8
At least an upper secondary/VET degree	354	55.2
At least a tertiary degree	256	39.9
Education-type requirement
Occupation-specific education is indispensable	309	47.9
Occupation-specific education is desirable	225	34.9
Occupation-specific education is not necessary	111	17.2

^a The percentages of single variables may not add up to 100 per cent due to missing cases. We have included the data from discontinued surveys if the relevant item was answered
^b We differentiate between respondents who were working as external recruiters in employment agencies (“recruitment agency”) and respondents who were working for one of the companies that advertised a position to be filled (“company”)
^c We differentiate between job positions in the public and the private sector