Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed

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Using a unique new survey, we study the relationship between search effort and outcomes for employed and non-employed workers. We find that the employed fare better than the non-employed in job search: they receive more offers per application and are offered higher pay even after controlling for observable characteristics. We use an on-the-job search model with endogenous search effort and find that unobserved heterogeneity explains less than a third of the residual wage offer differential. The model calibrated using various moments from our survey provides a good fit to the data and implies a reasonable flow value of unemployment.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10960

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity ; Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination: Other ; Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
• Subject: job search ; unemployment ; on-the-job search ; search effort ; wage dispersion

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Faberman, R. Jason ; Mueller, Andreas I. ; Sahin, Aysegül ; Topa, Giorgio
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/170944
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET