Do the Unemployed Accept Jobs Too Quickly? A Comparison with Employed Job Seekers

Arbeitspapier

This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better quality jobs. Differences in job quality are tiny when unobserved heterogeneity and selection into accepting a job are accounted for. Hence, differences are mostly due to behaviour of unemployed people rather than negative signaling or employer discrimination.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9112

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor Economics: General ; Demand and Supply of Labor: General ; Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination: Other ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Thema: on-the-job search ; unemployment ; job-finding rate ; job quality

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Longhi, Simonetta
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/114002
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ