Labor economists are devoting increasing attention to employer search. The existing literature falls into two categories: research on information networks and research on search effort. The empirical research on search effort considers the determinants of effort but does not attempt to measure...

Human capital theory predicts that training should reduce starting wages, yet this relationship remains empirically undocumented. Estimation of how training affects wages must control heterogeneity bias. I do this by estimating first-difference starting wage regressions on a sample of workers...

We estimate the effect of minimum wages on employment duration using event history data from the 1988–1994 rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Existing literature takes two alternative tracks: Some studies predict reduced turnover due to rents created by minimum wages, others...