Volume 16, Number 1 (Winter) 1981
Goodwin, William G., and John A. Carlson. 1981. "Job-Advertising and Wage Control Spillovers." Journal of Human Resources 16(1):80-93.
This article examines the tradeoffs between wages and job-related advertising in the recruitment of new employees. We hypothesize that when wages are limited by controls, firms increase their use of nonwage recruiting methods. We find support for this hypothesis by examining the effect of the Nixon wage controls on newspaper help-wanted advertisements.
Goodwin is associated with Charles T. Main, Inc., Boston, Mass. Carlson is
on the faculty at Purdue University.
* We are grateful to John M. Barron, the editor, and anonymous referees for
helpful comments. This research was supported in part by the National Science
Foundation. The views expressed are our own.
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