Arbeitspapier

Vacancy Duration and Wages

We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of online job adverts in the United Kingdom. Our research design identifies duration elasticities by leveraging firm-level wage policies that are plausibly exogenous to hiring difficulties on specific job vacancies, and control for job and market-level fixed-effects. Wage policies are defined based on external information on pay settlements, or on sharp, internally-defined, firm-level changes. In our preferred specifications, we estimate duration elasticities in the range −3 to −5, which are substantially larger than the few existing estimates.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16371

Classification
Wirtschaft
Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Subject
vacancy duration
monopsony
wages

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bassier, Ihsaan
Manning, Alan
Petrongolo, Barbara
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2023

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bassier, Ihsaan
  • Manning, Alan
  • Petrongolo, Barbara
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2023

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