establishment growth, vacancy filling and entry wages, we calibrate a model with directed search and ex-ante heterogeneous workers … response of vacancy filling to firm-level wages. We discuss the implications of this finding as well as potential resolutions …

rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model – even if wages are only … reservation wages, and consider an alternative reservation wage model based on reference dependence in job search. This extension …Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their upcoming dismissal. The wages …. Strong evidence is found that a longer 'dormant' term of notice leads to higher wages. In my sample, an additional month of … notice increases wages by three percent, ceteris paribus …

We investigate employer recruiting behavior, using detailed firm-level data from a national survey of employers hiring … recent college graduates. We show employers adjust recruiting effort, hiring standards, and compensation with the business … cycle, beliefs about tightness, and their own hiring plans. We then show that firms expending greater recruiting effort hire …

vacancies. Job flexibility at low wages is more likely to be offered alongside a wage-contract that exposes workers to earnings … risk, while flexibility at higher wages and in more skilled occupations is more likely to be offered alongside a fixed … point increase in the proportion of flexible and non-salaried vacancies at low wages …

We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of …

In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is … more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis that firms search sequentially based on the … vacancies for the Netherlands. Different types of search methods are distinguished. Our results imply that when firms use …

paper analyses firms' characteristics correlating with their recruitment behaviour towards the elderly (age 50 and more … seekers of age 50 and more, and which is a condition for recruiting of older employees. The results show that about 75% of the … older job candidates. Possible explanations point to the search behaviour of job seekers as well as to the signalling of …

compression" of wages since early 2020 (Autor and Dube, 2022) is partly explained by the same amenity-value effect, which operates …