The Pay and Non-Pay Content of Job Ads

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Main Authors: Audoly, Richard, Bhuller, Manudeep, Reiremo, Tore Adam
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Published: 2024
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author Audoly, Richard
Bhuller, Manudeep
Reiremo, Tore Adam
author_facet Audoly, Richard
Bhuller, Manudeep
Reiremo, Tore Adam
contents How informative are job ads about the actual pay and non-pay attributes offered by employers? Using a comprehensive database of job ads posted by Norwegian employers, we develop a methodology to systematically classify the pay and non-pay job attributes advertised in vacancy texts. About 60% of job ads provide pay-related information and nearly all ads feature information on non-pay attributes. We link these advertised attributes to the employers posting the ads and validate this information against revealed-preference measures of employer quality, realized attributes, and choices from a survey experiment. All three strategies confirm that job ads provide reliable signals of employer quality. We then incorporate the detailed job attributes in a monopsony framework and quantify their contribution to labor market inequality.
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spellingShingle The Pay and Non-Pay Content of Job Ads
Audoly, Richard
Bhuller, Manudeep
Reiremo, Tore Adam
General Economics
Economics
How informative are job ads about the actual pay and non-pay attributes offered by employers? Using a comprehensive database of job ads posted by Norwegian employers, we develop a methodology to systematically classify the pay and non-pay job attributes advertised in vacancy texts. About 60% of job ads provide pay-related information and nearly all ads feature information on non-pay attributes. We link these advertised attributes to the employers posting the ads and validate this information against revealed-preference measures of employer quality, realized attributes, and choices from a survey experiment. All three strategies confirm that job ads provide reliable signals of employer quality. We then incorporate the detailed job attributes in a monopsony framework and quantify their contribution to labor market inequality.
title The Pay and Non-Pay Content of Job Ads
topic General Economics
Economics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13204