Wage Setting and Unemployment: Evidence from Online Job Vacancy Data

Oleksandr Faryna, Tho Pham, Oleksandr Talavera () and Andriy Tsapin
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Oleksandr Faryna: National Bank of Ukraine

Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, University of Birmingham

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between labour market conditions and wage dynamics by exploiting a unique dataset of 0.8 million online job vacancies. We find a weak trade-off between aggregated national-level wage inflation and unemployment. This link becomes more evident when wage inflation is disaggregated at sectoral and occupational levels. Using exogenous variations in local market unemployment as the main identification strategy, a negative correlation between vacancy-level wage and unemployment is also established. The correlation magnitude, however, is different across regions and skill segments. Our findings suggest the importance of micro data's unique dimensions in examining wage setting – unemployment relationship.

Keywords: Phillips curve; wage curve; heterogeneity; micro data; online vacancies. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C55 E24 E31 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2020-02
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