How do employers attract the right workers? How important are posted wages vs. other job characteristics? Using data … from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, we show that most vacancies do not post wages, and, for those that do, job … elasticity of labor supply. Thus, our results uncover the previously undocumented power of words in the job matching process. …

related to negative relative demand shocks against the unskilled in the industrialised world, combined with flexible wages in …

related to negative relative demand shocks against the unskilled in the industrialised world, combined with flexible wages in …

A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … arises endogenously and workers spread their applications over the different types of contracts. Estimation of the model on …

explaining earnings instability. To study the evolution over time of these different components we extract two estimation samples …

-offer distribution from the effect of the time since the last lay-off on wages. This methodology is applied to the NLSY 79. We find …

's key parameters are calibrated using micro data on employment mobility and wages from the Survey of Income and Program …