Building a composite Help-Wanted Index

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2010
Volume: 109
Issue: 3
Pages: 175-178

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

This paper builds a measure of vacancy posting over 1951-2009 that captures the behavior of total--print and online-- help-wanted advertising, and can be used for time series analysis of the US labor market.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:109:y:2010:i:3:p:175-178
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-24