The effect of mandatory salary revelations on job postings

Zoga Duka and Bryan Weber

Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 254, issue C

Abstract: We examine a nationwide state-level panel of job posting data from the well-known job site Indeed. We track the estimated impact of laws requiring salaries being included in the job posting — and discover an insignificant but persistent and consistent decline in the number of offerings in states passing such laws between the range of 1%–6%. This is particularly interesting given such salary bands are already established by the employers and therefore one might believe these values would be de minimis for employers to include.

Keywords: Transparency; Job postings; Difference-in-differences; Online job searches; Two way fixed effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112423

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