Modestino, Alicia Sasser; Shoag, Daniel; Ballance, Joshua - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2015
The Great Recession and subsequent recovery have been particularly painful for low-skilled workers. From 2007 to 2012 … employers. Few researchers have been able to quantify rising employer requirements due to the difficulty in isolating labor … demand from labor supply. In this paper, using a novel dataset of online job vacancy postings, the authors tackle the …