expenditures on activities related to local amenities are U-shaped over the life cycle. This contrasts with well-documented life … leisure time spent going out and local amenities, which we estimate to be large and significant. Ignoring this complementarity … the value of local amenities is capitalized into housing prices, individuals will tend to move to lower-cost locations to …

-paying employers. To interpret this fact, we develop an equilibrium search model with endogenous firm pay, amenities, and hiring. We … provide a constructive proof of identification of all model parameters. The estimated model suggests that amenities are …

perceive variable-paying jobs as offering worse amenities, including culture, work-life balance, and paid family leave …

applications, focusing on posted wages and advertised non-wage amenities. We find robust evidence of directed search based on … 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 …

expenditures on activities related to local amenities are U-shaped over the life cycle. This contrasts with well-documented life … leisure time spent going out and local amenities, which we estimate to be large and significant. Ignoring this complementarity … the value of local amenities is capitalized into housing prices, individuals will tend to move to lower-cost locations to …

When searching for employment, workers consider non-wage job characteristics, such as effort requirements or amenities …