Impact of Search Frictions on Earnings
| Coefficient on labor supply elasticity | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.20 |
| Demographic controls | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Employer controls | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tenure controls | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| State fixed effects | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Person fixed effects | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Firm fixed effects | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| R-squared | 0.005 | 0.238 | 0.312 | 0.331 | 0.338 | 0.784 | 0.95 |
Notes: A pooled national sample of all dominant employment spells subject to the sample restriction described in the data section is used in this set of regressions. The dependent variable is the natural log of quarterly earnings. Demographic controls include age, age-squared, and indicator variables for gender, ethnicity, racial status, and education level. Employer controls include the number of employees working at the firm and industry indicator variables. Tenure controls include the length (in quarters) of the employment spell, as well as its squared term. Year effects are included in all models. These results are unweighted, but all models were also estimated with demographic weights constructed by the author. There were no significant differences between the weighted and unweighted models. Standard errors are not reported because the t-statistics range from 500 to 1000, but they are available upon request along with all other estimated coefficients. There are 267,310,000 observations in each specification.