Arbeitspapier
Job applications and labour market flows
Job applications have risen over time, yet job-finding rates have remained unchanged. Meanwhile, job separations have declined. We argue that an increase in the number of applications raises the probability of finding a good match rather than the probability of finding a job. Using a search model with multiple applications and costly information, we show that when applications increase, firms invest in identifying good matches, thereby reducing separations. Concurrently, increased congestion and selectivity over which offer to accept temper increases in job-finding rates. Our framework contains testable implications for changes in offers, acceptances, reservation wages, applicants per vacancy, and tenure, factors that enable us to generate the trends in unemployment flows.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper ; No. 2021-49
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- Subject
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Labour markets
Productivity
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Birinci, Serdar
See, Kurt
Wee, Shu Lin
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Veröffentlichung
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Bank of Canada
- (where)
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Ottawa
- (when)
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2021
- DOI
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doi:10.34989/swp-2021-49
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Birinci, Serdar
- See, Kurt
- Wee, Shu Lin
- Bank of Canada
Time of origin
- 2021