TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Escudero, Veronica
AU  - Liepmann, Hannah
AU  - Vergara, Damian
        TI  - Directed Search, Wages, and Non-wage Amenities: Evidence from an Online Job Board
        PY  - 2024/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17211
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17211
        AB  - We leverage rich data from a prominent online job board in Uruguay to assess directed search patterns in job applications, focusing on posted wages and advertised non-wage amenities. We find robust evidence of directed search based on posted wages in the cross-section, with stark heterogeneity by occupation: the wage-application correlation is driven by vacancies attached to lower-skill occupations, with applications to vacancies attached to higher-skill occupations showing no responsiveness to posted wages. 
By applying text analysis to the job ads, we elicit advertised non-wage amenities and find evidence of directed search based on non-wage amenities. Applications to vacancies attached to lower-skill occupations are consistent with lexicographic application preferences: amenities predict applications to these vacancies only when wages are not posted. Finally, we exploit industry-by-occupation minimum wage variation to demonstrate that the observed occupational heterogeneity in directed search patterns is supported by quasi-experimental difference-in-differences estimates of the impact of wages on job applications.
        KW  - minimum wages
KW  - non-wage amenities
KW  - directed search
KW  - vacancies
KW  - wages
        ER  -