unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor … vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … make it easier for a firm to fill a vacancy but more vacancies at other firms should make it more difficult, due to the …

percent increase in the statelevel effective minimum wage reduces vacancies by 2.4 percent in the same quarter, and the … cumulative effect is as large as 4.5 percent a year later. The negative effect on vacancies is more pronounced for occupations …. We argue that our focus on vacancies versus on employment has a distinct advantage of highlighting a mechanism through …

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

unusually informative data comprising detailed information on vacancies, the establishments posting the vacancies, and the … workers eventually filling the vacancies. We find that vacancy durations are negatively correlated with the starting wage and … confirm previous findings that growing establishments fill their vacancies faster. To understand the relationship between …

Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …

-wanted ads and an unemployment subsidy, is highly contractionary. However, it leads to large welfare gains. The policy also plays …

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi … Norway, and comprehensive data on recruiters, vacancies and job seekers. We document that broadband expansions increased … online vacancy-postings and lowered the average duration of a vacancy and the share of establishments with unfilled vacancies …