Whether and how workers search on the job depends on their beliefs about pay and working conditions in other firms. Yet … they face considerable heterogeneity in their outside pay options, and direct their search toward firms they believe would … administrative records and with workers' valuations of firm-specific amenities.Most workers are unwilling to search for a new job …

This paper studies how dynamic changes in the search environment affect consumer search and purchase behavior. We … develop a dynamic model that incorporates a non-stationary search environment and propose a feasible estimation procedure to … consumers’ complete search records. We show that accounting for dynamics is crucial for accurately estimating search costs …