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Joshua Ballance

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(50%) Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

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Working papers

  1. Sasser Modestino, Alicia & Shoag, Daniel & Ballance, Joshua, 2016. "Downskilling: Changes in Employer Skill Requirements over the Business Cycle," Working Paper Series 16-014, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
  2. Modestino, Alicia Sasser & Shoag, Daniel & Ballance, Joshua, 2015. "Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?," Working Paper Series rwp15-013, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
  3. Joshua Ballance & Alicia Sasser Modestino & Daniel Shoag, 2015. "Upskilling: do employers demand greater skill when skilled workers are plentiful?," Working Papers 14-17, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Articles

  1. Alicia Sasser Modestino & Daniel Shoag & Joshua Ballance, 2020. "Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 102(4), pages 793-805, October.
  2. Ballance, Joshua & Clifford, Robert & Shoag, Daniel, 2020. "“No more credit score”: Employer credit check bans and signal substitution," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
  3. Modestino, Alicia Sasser & Shoag, Daniel & Ballance, Joshua, 2016. "Downskilling: changes in employer skill requirements over the business cycle," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 333-347.

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Working papers

  1. Sasser Modestino, Alicia & Shoag, Daniel & Ballance, Joshua, 2016. "Downskilling: Changes in Employer Skill Requirements over the Business Cycle," Working Paper Series 16-014, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.

    Cited by:

    1. Murillo Campello & Gaurav Kankanhalli & Pradeep Muthukrishnan, 2020. "Corporate Hiring under COVID-19: Labor Market Concentration, Downskilling, and Income Inequality," NBER Working Papers 27208, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Bhuller, Manudeep & Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal & Vigtel, Trond Christian, 2020. "How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching," IZA Discussion Papers 12895, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Barbara Ermini & Luca Papi & Francesca Scaturro, 2022. "Over-education and the great recession. The case of Italian Ph.D graduates," RIEDS - Rivista Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica - The Italian Journal of Economic, Demographic and Statistical Studies, SIEDS Societa' Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica, vol. 76(3), pages 17-28, July-Sept.
    4. Azar, José & Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano & Marinescu, Ioana & Taska, Bledi & von Wachter, Till, 2019. "Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration," CEPR Discussion Papers 14239, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    5. Azar, José & Marinescu, Ioana & Steinbaum, Marshall & Taska, Bledi, 2020. "Concentration in US labor markets: Evidence from online vacancy data," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
    6. Lyu, Wenjing & Liu, Jin, 2021. "Soft skills, hard skills: What matters most? Evidence from job postings," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 300(C).
    7. Jesse Rothstein, 2020. "The Lost Generation? Labor Market Outcomes for Post Great Recession Entrants," NBER Working Papers 27516, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    8. Christopher Huckfeldt, 2018. "Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions," 2018 Meeting Papers 1207, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    9. Nicholas Bloom & Steven J. Davis & Stephen Hansen & Peter Lambert & Raffaella Sadun & Bledi Taska, 2023. "Remote work across jobs, companies and space," POID Working Papers 067, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    10. Grinis, Inna, 2017. "The STEM requirements of "non-STEM" jobs: evidence from UK online vacancy postings and implications for skills & knowledge shortages," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 85123, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    11. Neffke, Frank & Nedelkoska, Ljubica & Wiederhold, Simon, 2024. "Skill mismatch and the costs of job displacement," IWH Discussion Papers 11/2023, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), revised 2024.
    12. Guo, Junjie, 2022. "The persistent impact of multiple offers," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    13. Steven W. Hemelt & Brad J. Hershbein & Shawn M. Martin & Kevin M. Stange, 2024. "College Majors and Skills: Evidence from the Universe of Online Job Ads," Upjohn Working Papers 23-384, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
    14. Robert E. Hall & Marianna Kudlyak, 2020. "Why Has the US Economy Recovered So Consistently from Every Recession in the Past 70 Years?," NBER Working Papers 27234, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    15. Handel Michael J., 2024. "Labor Shortages: What Is the Problem?," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Sciendo, vol. 59(3), pages 136-142.
    16. Protsch, Paula, 2021. "Employers’ recruitment contexts and hiring preferences in the German youth labor market," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 73, pages 1-1.
    17. Stephanie Aaronson & Mary C. Daly & William L. Wascher & David W. Wilcox, 2019. "Okun Revisited: Who Benefits Most from a Strong Economy," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2019-072, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
    18. Marcus Dillender, 2019. "Computerization of White Collar Jobs," Upjohn Working Papers 19-310, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
    19. Burn, Ian & Button, Patrick & Munguia Corella, Luis & Neumark, David, 2020. "Older Workers Need Not Apply? Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring," IZA Discussion Papers 13506, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    20. Katheryn N. Russ & Jay C. Shambaugh & Sanjay R. Singh, 2023. "Currency Areas, Labor Markets, and Regional Cyclical Sensitivity," Working Paper Series 2023-22, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
    21. Mercan, Yusuf & Schoefer, Benjamin & SedlÃ¡Ä ek, Petr, 2022. "A Congestion Theory of Unemployment Fluctuations," CEPR Discussion Papers 15500, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    22. Woessmann, Ludger, 2024. "Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital," IZA Discussion Papers 17395, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    23. Pinto, Sérgio & Steinbaum, Marshall, 2023. "The long-run impact of the Great Recession on student debt," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    24. Erik Katovich & Dominic Parker & Steven Poelhekke, 2025. "Timing is Everything: Labor Market Winners and Losers during Boom-Bust Cycles," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 25-033/VIII, Tinbergen Institute.
    25. Shrestha, Rashesh & Coxhead, Ian, 2018. "Export boom, employment bust? The paradox of Indonesia's displaced workers, 2000-14," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-6, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    26. Clifford, Robert & Shoag, Daniel, 2016. ""No More Credit Score": Emplyer Credit Check Bans and Signal Substitution," Working Paper Series 16-008, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
    27. Kapelyuk, Sergey & Karelin, Iliya, 2023. "Digital Skills: Classification, Empirical Estimates of the Demand," MPRA Paper 119644, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    28. Brad Hershbein & Lisa B. Kahn, 2016. "Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings," NBER Working Papers 22762, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    29. David Evans & Claire Mason & Haohui Chen & Andrew Reeson, 2024. "Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 8(1), pages 32-42, January.
    30. Pater, Robert & Szkola, Jaroslaw & Kozak, Marcin, 2019. "A method for measuring detailed demand for workers' competences," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 13, pages 1-30.
    31. Alekseeva, Liudmila & Azar, José & Giné, Mireia & Samila, Sampsa & Taska, Bledi, 2021. "The demand for AI skills in the labor market," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    32. Mary A. Burke & Alicia Sasser Modestino & Shahriar Sadighi & Rachel B. Sederberg & Bledi Taska, 2019. "No Longer Qualified? Changes in the Supply and Demand for Skills within Occupations," Working Papers 20-3, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
    33. Monica Mihaela Maer Matei & Anamaria Beatrice Aldea, 2019. "Employers’ Requirements for Data Scientists - an Analysis of Job Posts," Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - Sectiunea Stiinte Economice si Administrative/ Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty - Section: Economical and Administrative Sciences, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 4(1), pages 21-32, December.
    34. Choi, Eleanor J. & Jeong, Daeyoung & Lee, Chae & Yu, Kyuseob, 2025. "Recession and Resilience: Labor Market Consequences of Starting College in a Bad Economy," IZA Discussion Papers 18219, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    35. Robert Clifford & Daniel Shoag, 2016. "“No more credit score”: employer credit check bans and signal substitution," Working Papers 16-10, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
    36. Redmond, Paul & Kelly, Lorcan & Staffa, Elisa, 2025. "A study of minimum wage employment in Ireland using online job vacancy data," Research Series, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), number RS209.
    37. Peter Q. Blair & David J. Deming, 2020. "Structural Increases in Skill Demand after the Great Recession," NBER Working Papers 26680, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    38. Jan Drahokoupil & Brian Fabo, 2022. "The limits of foreign-led growth: Demand for skills by foreign and domestic firms," Review of International Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 152-174, January.
    39. Scott E. Sampson, 2018. "Professional Service Jobs: Highly Paid but Subject to Disruption?," Service Science, INFORMS, vol. 10(4), pages 457-475, December.
    40. Mindaugas Butkus & Kristina Matuzeviciute & Dovile Rupliene & Janina Seputiene, 2020. "Does Unemployment Responsiveness to Output Change Depend on Age, Gender, Education, and the Phase of the Business Cycle?," Economies, MDPI, vol. 8(4), pages 1-29, November.
    41. Henrika Langen, 2025. "The Role of Vocational Training in Addressing Skilled Labor Shortages," Economics of Education Working Paper Series 0238, University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW).
    42. Lyttelton, Thomas & Nelson, Dylan & Wilmers, Nathan, 2025. "Are decredentialed jobs a route to upward mobility?," SocArXiv 4kgj9_v1, Center for Open Science.
    43. Daly, Moira & Groes, Fane & Jensen, Mathias Fjællegaard, 2025. "Skill demand versus skill use: Comparing job posts with individual skill use on the job," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    44. Vezza, Evelyn & Zunino,Gonzalo & Laguinge,Luis & Moroz, Harry Edmund & Apella, Ignacio Raul & Spivack, Marla Hillary, 2025. "Understanding Labor Market Demand in Real Time in Argentina and Uruguay," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11086, The World Bank.
    45. Azar, José & Alekseeva, Liudmila & Gine, Mireia & Samila, Sampsa & Taska, Bledi, 2020. "The Demand for AI Skills in the Labor Market," CEPR Discussion Papers 14320, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    46. Jan Drahokoupil & Brian Fabo, 2019. "The limits of foreign-led growth: Demand for digital skills by foreign and domestic firms in Slovakia," Working and Discussion Papers WP 7/2019, Research Department, National Bank of Slovakia.
    47. Richard Friberg & Mark Sanctuary, 2020. "Exchange rate risk and the skill composition of labor," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer;Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), vol. 156(2), pages 287-312, May.
    48. Emilio Colombo & Alberto Marcato, 2021. "Skill Demand and Labour Market Concentration: Theory and Evidence from Italian Vacancies," DISEIS - Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia internazionale, delle istituzioni e dello sviluppo dis2104, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimento di Economia internazionale, delle istituzioni e dello sviluppo (DISEIS).
    49. Choi, Sekyu & Figueroa, Nincen & Villena-Roldán, Benjamin, 2020. "Wage Cyclicality Revisited: The Role of Hiring Standards," MPRA Paper 120307, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 21 Apr 2022.
    50. Alicia Sasser Modestino & Daniel Shoag & Joshua Ballance, 2020. "Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 102(4), pages 793-805, October.

  2. Modestino, Alicia Sasser & Shoag, Daniel & Ballance, Joshua, 2015. "Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?," Working Paper Series rwp15-013, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.

    Cited by:

    1. Carlos Carrillo-Tudela & Fraser Summerfield & Ludo Visschers, 2025. "Workers' Task and Employer Mobility over the Business Cycle," Edinburgh School of Economics Discussion Paper Series 315, Edinburgh School of Economics, University of Edinburgh.
    2. Barbara Ermini & Luca Papi & Francesca Scaturro, 2022. "Over-education and the great recession. The case of Italian Ph.D graduates," RIEDS - Rivista Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica - The Italian Journal of Economic, Demographic and Statistical Studies, SIEDS Societa' Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica, vol. 76(3), pages 17-28, July-Sept.
    3. Enghin Atalay & Sebastian Sotelo & Daniel Tannenbaum, 2022. "The Geography of Job Tasks," Working Papers 187, Peruvian Economic Association.
    4. C Sepulveda & J Gallego & J Cardenas & J Sarango & S Ropero, 2020. "Empleabilidad e informalidad: un análisis del mercado laboral juvenil para 5 países latinoamericanos," Documentos de trabajo - Alianza EFI 18991, Alianza EFI.
    5. Carlos Carrillo-Tudela & Hermann Gartner & Leo Kaas, 2023. "Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates, and Matching Efficiency," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 21(6), pages 2413-2459.
    6. Arendt, Lukasz & Gałecka-Burdziak, Ewa & Núñez, Fernando & Pater, Robert & Usabiaga, Carlos, 2023. "Skills requirements across task-content groups in Poland: What online job offers tell us," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 187(C).
    7. Maciej Berk{e}sewicz & Herman Cherniaiev & Robert Pater, 2021. "Estimating the number of entities with vacancies using administrative and online data," Papers 2106.03263, arXiv.org.
    8. Grinis, Inna, 2017. "The STEM requirements of "non-STEM" jobs: evidence from UK online vacancy postings and implications for skills & knowledge shortages," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 85123, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    9. Brad J. Hershbein & Lisa B. Kahn, 2016. "Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings," Upjohn Working Papers 16-254, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
    10. Neffke, Frank & Nedelkoska, Ljubica & Wiederhold, Simon, 2024. "Skill mismatch and the costs of job displacement," IWH Discussion Papers 11/2023, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), revised 2024.
    11. Weinstein, Russell, 2021. "Graduating from a Less Selective University during a Recession: Evidence from Mobility Report Cards and Employer Recruiting," IZA Discussion Papers 14462, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    12. Schultheiss, Tobias & Pfister, Curdin & Gnehm, Ann-Sophie & Backes-Gellner, Uschi, 2023. "Education expansion and high-skill job opportunities for workers: Does a rising tide lift all boats?," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    13. David Deming & Lisa B. Kahn, 2017. "Skill Requirements across Firms and Labor Markets: Evidence from Job Postings for Professionals," NBER Working Papers 23328, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    14. Arenas-Arroyo, Esther & Fabian, Jacob & Mengel, Friederike & Schmidpeter, Bernhard & Serafinelli, Michel, 2025. "Demand for Green Skills in an Evolving Landscape," IZA Discussion Papers 18102, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    15. Angelica Bertucci & Emilio Colombo & Patrizio Tirelli, 2025. "Broadband Internet and Labour Market Dynamism," DISEIS - Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia internazionale, delle istituzioni e dello sviluppo dis2506, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimento di Economia internazionale, delle istituzioni e dello sviluppo (DISEIS).
    16. Usabiaga, Carlos & Núñez, Fernando & Arendt, Lukasz & Gałecka-Burdziak, Ewa & Pater, Robert, 2022. "Skill requirements and labour polarisation: An association analysis based on Polish online job offers," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).
    17. Marcus Dillender, 2019. "Computerization of White Collar Jobs," Upjohn Working Papers 19-310, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
    18. Rudolf Winter-Ebmer & Jasmin Anderlik & Malika Jumaniyozova & Bernhard Schmidpeter, 2024. "Monopsony: Wages, wage bargaining and job requirements," Economics working papers 2024-15, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
    19. Radu Vranceanu & Angela Sutan, 2021. "Who should pay the bill for employee upskilling?," Working Papers hal-02977891, HAL.
    20. Madeleine Sumption, 2022. "Shortages, high-demand occupations, and the post-Brexit UK immigration system," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 38(1), pages 97-111.
    21. Liis Roosaar & Urmas Varblane & Jaan Masso, 2020. "Productivity Gains From Labour Churning In Economic Crisis: Do Foreign Firms Gain More?," University of Tartu - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Working Paper Series 125, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu (Estonia).
    22. Bennett, Fidel & Escudero, Verónica & Liepmann, Hannah & Podjanin, Ana, 2022. "Using Online Vacancy and Job Applicants' Data to Study Skills Dynamics," VfS Annual Conference 2022 (Basel): Big Data in Economics 264023, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    23. Mehic, Adrian & Mosaddegh, Arian, 2025. "The Impact of Firm-Influenced Vocational Education on Labor Market and Demographic Outcomes," Working Paper Series 1524, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, revised 14 Apr 2025.
    24. Saltiel, Fernando & Tuttle, Cody, 2022. "Business Cycles and Police Hires," IZA Discussion Papers 15665, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    25. Karelin, Iliya & Kapelyuk, Sergey, 2023. "Digital Skills of Russian Citizens: Regional Differences," MPRA Paper 119494, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    26. Andreas Kettemann & Andreas I. Mueller & Josef Zweimüller, 2018. "Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data," CESifo Working Paper Series 7351, CESifo.
    27. Richard J. Paulsen, 2022. "Arts majors and the Great Recession: a cross-sectional analysis of educational choices and employment outcomes," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 46(4), pages 635-658, December.
    28. Eliza Forsythe, 2022. "Why Don’t Firms Hire Young Workers During Recessions? [Real wages and the business cycle]," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 132(645), pages 1765-1789.
    29. Woessmann, Ludger, 2024. "Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital," IZA Discussion Papers 17395, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    30. Pinto, Sérgio & Steinbaum, Marshall, 2023. "The long-run impact of the Great Recession on student debt," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    31. Erik Katovich & Dominic Parker & Steven Poelhekke, 2025. "Timing is Everything: Labor Market Winners and Losers during Boom-Bust Cycles," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 25-033/VIII, Tinbergen Institute.
    32. Clifford, Robert & Shoag, Daniel, 2016. ""No More Credit Score": Emplyer Credit Check Bans and Signal Substitution," Working Paper Series 16-008, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
    33. Kapelyuk, Sergey & Karelin, Iliya, 2023. "Digital Skills: Classification, Empirical Estimates of the Demand," MPRA Paper 119644, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    34. David Evans & Claire Mason & Haohui Chen & Andrew Reeson, 2024. "Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 8(1), pages 32-42, January.
    35. Ziegler, Lennart, 2021. "Skill Demand and Wages. Evidence from Linked Vacancy Data," IZA Discussion Papers 14511, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    36. Kakuho Furukawa & Yoshihiko Hogen & Yosuke Kido, "undated". "Labor Market of Regular Workers in Japan: A Perspective from Job Advertisement Data," Bank of Japan Working Paper Series 23-E-7, Bank of Japan.
    37. Honey Batra & Amanda M. Michaud & Simon Mongey, 2023. "Online Job Posts Contain Very Little Wage Information," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 083, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
    38. Claudia Macaluso, 2017. "Skill Remoteness and Post-layoff Labor Market Outcomes," 2017 Meeting Papers 569, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    39. Modestino, Alicia Sasser & Paulsen, Richard J., 2019. "Reducing inequality summer by summer: Lessons from an evaluation of the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 72(C), pages 40-53.
    40. Michael J. Handel & Alexandria Valerio & Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta, 2016. "Accounting for Mismatch in Low- and Middle-Income Countries," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 24906, April.
    41. Andrew Green & Lucas Lamby, 2025. "The Characteristics of the Artificial Intelligence Workforce across OECD Countries," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 68(2), pages 541-568, June.
    42. Christopher T. Bennett, 2023. "Labor Market Returns to MBAs From Less‐Selective Universities: Evidence From a Field Experiment During COVID‐19," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 42(2), pages 525-551, March.
    43. Robert Clifford & Daniel Shoag, 2016. "“No more credit score”: employer credit check bans and signal substitution," Working Papers 16-10, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
    44. Modestino, Alicia Sasser & Burke, Mary A. & Sadighi, Shahriar & Sederberg, Rachel & Stern, Tomere & Taska, Bledi, 2023. "No Longer Qualified? Changes in the Supply and Demand for Skills within Occupations," IZA Discussion Papers 16542, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    45. Ballance, Joshua & Clifford, Robert & Shoag, Daniel, 2020. "“No more credit score”: Employer credit check bans and signal substitution," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
    46. Summerfield, Fraser, 2024. "The long shadow of bullying: Career consequences for an American cohort," CLEF Working Paper Series 79, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF), University of Waterloo.
    47. Davis, Steven J. & Samaniego de la Parra, Brenda, 2024. "Application Flows," IZA Discussion Papers 16903, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    48. Daly, Moira & Groes, Fane & Jensen, Mathias Fjællegaard, 2025. "Skill demand versus skill use: Comparing job posts with individual skill use on the job," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    49. Hemelt, Steven W. & Hershbein, Brad & Martin, Shawn & Stange, Kevin M., 2023. "College majors and skills: Evidence from the universe of online job ads," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    50. Josten, Cecily & Krause, Helen & Lordan, Grace & Yeung, Brian, 2024. "What Skills Pay More? The Changing Demand and Return to Skills for Professional Workers," IZA Discussion Papers 16755, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    51. Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo, 2017. "Low-Skill and High-Skill Automation," NBER Working Papers 24119, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    52. Radu Vranceanu & Angela Sutan, 2023. "Should the firm or the employee pay for upskilling? A contract theory approach," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(1), pages 197-207, January.
    53. Forsythe, Eliza & Wu, Jhih-Chian, 2021. "Explaining Demographic Heterogeneity in Cyclical Unemployment," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    54. Adely, Fida Issa J. & Mitra, Ankushi & Mohamed, Menatalla & Shaham, Adam, 2021. "Poor education, unemployment and the promise of skills: The hegemony of the “skills mismatch” discourse," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    55. Beblavý, Miroslav & Fabo, Brian & Lenaerts, Karolien, 2016. "Skills Requirements for the 30 Most-Frequently Advertised Occupations in the United States: An analysis based on online vacancy data," CEPS Papers 11406, Centre for European Policy Studies.
    56. Edward P. Lazear & Kathryn L. Shaw & Christopher T. Stanton, 2016. "Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Finding an Open Slot," NBER Working Papers 22202, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    57. Kristin F. Butcher & Deniz Çivril & Sari Pekkala Kerr, 2024. "The Impact of State Paid Leave Laws on Firms and Establishments: Evidence from the First Three States," Working Paper Series WP 2024-12, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
    58. Choi, Sekyu & Figueroa, Nincen & Villena-Roldán, Benjamin, 2020. "Wage Cyclicality Revisited: The Role of Hiring Standards," MPRA Paper 120307, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 21 Apr 2022.
    59. García-Vega, María, 2022. "R&D restructuring during the Great Recession and young firms," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    60. Rouwendal, Harm Jan & Koster, Sierdjan, 2025. "Does it take extra skills to work in a large city?," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).

  3. Joshua Ballance & Alicia Sasser Modestino & Daniel Shoag, 2015. "Upskilling: do employers demand greater skill when skilled workers are plentiful?," Working Papers 14-17, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

    Cited by:

    1. Karolien Lenaerts & Miroslav Beblavý & Brian Fabo, 2016. "Prospects for utilisation of non-vacancy Internet data in labour market analysis—an overview," IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 5(1), pages 1-18, December.
    2. Marcus Dillender, 2019. "Computerization of White Collar Jobs," Upjohn Working Papers 19-310, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
    3. Liis Roosaar & Urmas Varblane & Jaan Masso, 2020. "Productivity Gains From Labour Churning In Economic Crisis: Do Foreign Firms Gain More?," University of Tartu - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Working Paper Series 125, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu (Estonia).
    4. Clifford, Robert & Shoag, Daniel, 2016. ""No More Credit Score": Emplyer Credit Check Bans and Signal Substitution," Working Paper Series 16-008, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
    5. Brad Hershbein & Lisa B. Kahn, 2016. "Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings," NBER Working Papers 22762, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    6. Barbara Ermini & Luca Papi & Francesca Scaturro, 2017. "Over education and the great recession. The case of italian PH.D graduates," Working Papers 420, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (I), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali.
    7. Honey Batra & Amanda M. Michaud & Simon Mongey, 2023. "Online Job Posts Contain Very Little Wage Information," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 083, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
    8. Michael J. Handel & Alexandria Valerio & Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta, 2016. "Accounting for Mismatch in Low- and Middle-Income Countries," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 24906, April.
    9. Robert Clifford & Daniel Shoag, 2016. "“No more credit score”: employer credit check bans and signal substitution," Working Papers 16-10, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
    10. Ballance, Joshua & Clifford, Robert & Shoag, Daniel, 2020. "“No more credit score”: Employer credit check bans and signal substitution," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
    11. Forsythe, Eliza & Wu, Jhih-Chian, 2021. "Explaining Demographic Heterogeneity in Cyclical Unemployment," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    12. Beblavý, Miroslav & Fabo, Brian & Lenaerts, Karolien, 2016. "Skills Requirements for the 30 Most-Frequently Advertised Occupations in the United States: An analysis based on online vacancy data," CEPS Papers 11406, Centre for European Policy Studies.

Articles

  1. Alicia Sasser Modestino & Daniel Shoag & Joshua Ballance, 2020. "Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 102(4), pages 793-805, October.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Ballance, Joshua & Clifford, Robert & Shoag, Daniel, 2020. "“No more credit score”: Employer credit check bans and signal substitution," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Card, David & Colella, Fabrizio & Lalive, Rafael, 2021. "Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity," IZA Discussion Papers 14758, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Choi, Yiseon & Dormady, Noah, 2025. "Can FICO scores be used to explain managerial decision making?: Evidence from a supply-chain resilience experiment," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 288(C).
    3. Rachel Soloveichik, 2023. "Capitalizing Data: Case Studies of Tax Forms and Individual Credit Reports," BEA Papers 0116, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
    4. Giuseppe Grasso & Konstantinos Tatsiramos, 2023. "The Impact of Restricting Fixed-Term Contracts on Labor and Skill Demand," CESifo Working Paper Series 10693, CESifo.
    5. Vojtech Bartos, 2025. "Breaking Bias: Pathways to Reducing Discrimination," CESifo Working Paper Series 12045, CESifo.
    6. Christa Gibbs & Benedict Guttman-Kenney & Donghoon Lee & Scott Nelson & Wilbert van der Klaauw & Jialan Wang, 2025. "Consumer Credit Reporting Data," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 63(2), pages 598-636, June.
    7. Kuhn, Peter J. & Shen, Kailing, 2021. "What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?," IZA Discussion Papers 14618, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

  3. Modestino, Alicia Sasser & Shoag, Daniel & Ballance, Joshua, 2016. "Downskilling: changes in employer skill requirements over the business cycle," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 333-347.
    See citations under working paper version above.

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  1. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (2) 2016-09-11 2016-10-02
  2. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2015-09-05
  3. NEP-TID: Technology and Industrial Dynamics (1) 2016-10-02
  4. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (1) 2015-05-09

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