Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data

Earnings growth, job flows and churn

“…Davis et al (2013) find that vacancy-fill rates are related to firm-level characteristics such as employment growth, turnover, and size. Similarly, Kettemann et al (2018) show that job-filling rates are higher at high-paying firms and that these rates are increasing in firms growth rates even after controlling for the firm's static components of wages. Our results suggest that employer growth and gross worker flows are not just important for job-filling rates, but also for the earnings growth of workers.…”

“…Our results suggest that employer growth and gross worker flows are not just important for job-filling rates, but also for the earnings growth of workers. Earnings growth, instead of levels, is an important distinction between Kettemann et al (2018) and ourselves: by focusing on the growth rate, we difference out unobservable individual-level characteristics which may not be randomly allocated across destination firms.…”

Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity

“…The platform includes almost 60% of all vacancies posted by Austrian firms, with higher coverage rates of openings in manufacturing and construction and lower rates in banking and finance (Kettemann et al, 2018;Mueller et al, 2019;Ziegler, 2021). Firms post job advertisements that list the characteristics of the open position and the desired qualifications of potential applicants.…”