Posted Wage Cyclicality: Evidence from High-Quality Vacancy Data

Sekyu Choi, Benjamin Villena-Roldan and Nincen Figueroa

Bristol Economics Discussion Papers from School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK

Abstract: We estimate high real wage cyclicality using over a decade of online job ads. Our unique, high-quality data—featuring reliable wage rates, firm identifiers, job titles, hiring standards, vacancy counts, and applicant demographics— provides an accurate measure of firms’ marginal labor cost due to its demand-side and ex ante nature and leads to dependable estimates. Crucially, omitting countercyclical hiring standards leads to underestimating real wage procyclicality. A search and matching model with endogenous hiring standards rationalizes these findings, showing how highquality data is crucial for understanding labor market dynamics

Date: 2025-04-02
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