Hiring for old and new positions: Understanding wage formation, sorting, and

Dogan Gülümser
Additional contact information
Dogan Gülümser: Uppsala University amd Uppsala Center for Labor Studies

French Stata Users' Group Meetings 2024 from Stata Users Group

Abstract: This presentation explores how firms' demands for new skills (occupations) affect workers' labor market outcomes and within- and across-firms wage dispersion. I outline a stylized matching model (Jovanovic 1979) to study firms' differential responses to information frictions when hiring for new versus preexisting occupations. Firms respond to higher information frictions when creating new roles by screening more, which results in better match quality for new positions. Using matched employer–employee panel data from Sweden, I show that workers entering newly created roles within

Date: 2024-06-29
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://repec.org/frsug2024/France24_Gulumser.pdf presentation materials (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:boc:fsug24:05

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in French Stata Users' Group Meetings 2024 from Stata Users Group Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Christopher F Baum ().