Explaining differences in job search outcomes between employed and unemployed job seekers

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We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job, and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this difference seems to be due to behavioural differences between employed and unemployed job seekers rather than differences in characteristics. Consistent with search theory, we find that employed job seekers are more selective in evaluating job offers; for example, they are less likely to accept low-wage and temporary jobs, or jobs that do not meet their working hour requirements.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2011-17

Classification and Topics

• Classification: 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
• Subject: on-the-job search ; unemployment ; job-finding rate ; Arbeitsuche ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Vergleich ; Anspruchslohn ; Großbritannien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Longhi, Simonetta ; Taylor, Mark
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Colchester
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/65939
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