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 …

Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The …

We use a novel data set on firm vacancies and job seekers from a Mexican government job placement service to analyze …

vacancies on the other hand, which is observationally equivalent to a constant return Cobb-Douglas function commonly used to …

comovement between matches, unemployment, and vacancies in dynamic labor market models: either by assuming a standard Cobb …

estimation, show economically significant effects of shocks to the number of vacancies on employment dynamics, while shocks to … 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 …