Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data
This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using linked data on vacancies, the posting establishments and the workers eventually filling the vacancies. The unique combination of large-scale, administrative worker-, establishment- and vacancy-data is critical for separating establishment- and job-level determinants of vacancy duration from worker-level heterogeneity. Conditional on worker observables, we find that vacancy duration is negatively correlated with the starting wage and its establishment component, with precisely estimated elasticities of -0.04 and -0.10, respectively. While the negative relationship is qualitatively consistent with models of wage posting, these elasticities are small, suggesting that firms’ wage policies can account only for a small fraction of the variation in vacancy filling across establishments.
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Copy CitationAndreas I. Mueller, Damian Osterwalder, Josef Zweimüller, and Andreas Kettemann, "Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data," NBER Working Paper 25118 (2018), https://doi.org/10.3386/w25118.Download Citation
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Andreas I Mueller & Damian Osterwalder & Josef Zweimüller & Andreas Kettemann, 2024. "Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy–Employer–Employee Data," Review of Economic Studies, vol 91(3), pages 1807-1841. citation courtesy of 
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