Bidding for Talent: A Test of Conduct in a High-Wage Labor Market

We are indebted to our advisors Patrick Kline, Christopher Walters, and Matthew Backus for invaluable support and guidance. We are also grateful to Claudia Macaluso and Peter Newberry for serving as discussants for this paper. We thank Daron Acemoglu, Nikhil Agarwal, David Autor, David Berger, Richard Blundell, David Card, Attila Lindner, Lorenzo Magnolfi, Alan Manning, Alex Mas, Parag Pathak, Yotam Shem-Tov, Chris Sullivan, Mel Stephens, Gabriel Ulyssea and Basit Zafar for helpful comments and discussions. Jiawei Tang provided outstanding research assistance. We also thank participants at the SITE Micro and Macro of Labor Markets conference, the 4th IDSC of IZA Workshop on Matching Workers and Jobs Online, IIOC, NASMES, the UC Berkeley Labor Seminar, and seminar participants from several other institutions. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab Labor Science Initiative, the Strandberg Family Graduate Fellowship Fund, and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. The views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of Hired.com. This manuscript was not subject to prior review by any party, except to verify that it does not contain any confidential data or information, as per the research contract signed at the outset of this project. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.