The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment

Boris Hirsch (), Elke Jahn, Alan Manning and Michael Oberfichtner
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Boris Hirsch: Leuphana University Lüneburg

No 15675, IZA Discussion Papers from IZA Network @ LISER

Abstract: One of the factors likely to affect the market power of employers is the sensitivity of the flow of recruits to the offered wage, but there is very little research on this. This paper presents a methodology for estimating the wage elasticity of recruitment and applies it to German data. Our estimates of the wage elasticity of recruitment are about 1.4. We also report evidence that high-wage employers are more selective in hiring, in which case the relevant recruitment elasticity should be higher, about 2.2. Together with prior estimates of the quit elasticity these results imply that wages are 72–77% of the marginal product of labour. Further, we find lower elasticities for recruits hired from non-employment as well as for women, non-German nationals, non-prime-age workers, less skilled workers, and workers with less complex jobs.

Keywords: monopsony; imperfect labour markets; wage elasticity of recruitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2022-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hrm, nep-lma and nep-ltv
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Working Paper: The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment (2023)
Working Paper: The wage elasticity of recruitment (2022)
Working Paper: The wage elasticity of recruitment (2022)
Working Paper: The wage elasticity of recruitment (2022)
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