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Job search and job finding in a period of mass unemployment: Evidence from high-frequency longitudinal data

Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2011

This paper presents findings from a survey of 6,025 unemployed workers who were interviewed every week for up to 24 weeks in the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010. Our main findings are: (1) the amount of time devoted to job search declines sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the...

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Locus of control and job search strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...

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Locus of control and job search strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations

Kuhn, Peter; Skuterud, Mikal - 2002

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

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Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration: new empirical evidence

Christensen, Björn - 2002

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reserva …tion wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed …

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Reservation wages and starting wages

van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop; Berkhout, Peter - 2011

We analyse a unique data set that combines reservation wage and actually paid wage for a large sample of Dutch recent higher education graduates. On average, accepted wages are almost 8% higher than reservation wages, but there is no fixed proportionality. We find that the difference between...

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Immigrant Job Search in the UK: Evidence from Panel Data

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2003

native born and immigrant groups, in terms of their impact on the duration of unemployment. Our main finding is that …

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Stepping Stones for the Unemployed : The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work

Zijl, Marloes; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Heyma, Arjan - 2004

-state duration model, applying the ?timing of events? approach. To deal with selectivity, the model incorporates transitions from … unambiguously show that temporary jobs serve as stepping stones towards regular employment. They shorten the duration of …

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Broadband Infrastructure and Unemployment - Evidence for Germany

Czernich, Nina - 2011

Online job search is becoming increasingly prominent and is viewed to improve the efficiency of the search process. OLS results suggest a negative association of DSL availability with unemployment rates across German municipalities. However, the roll-out of DSL networks is not random. This paper...

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Job search and unemployment insurance: new evidence from time use data

Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2008

; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …. A nonparametric Monte Carlo technique suggests that the relationship between job search effort and the duration of …

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