The past decade and a half has seen tremendous research growth in the area of job displacement. This paper discusses the state of knowledge on the issues and questions of job loss. The 1984-96 Displaced Worker Surveys are used to describe how the characteristics of displacement are changing to...

The purpose of this study is to test empirically a theory accounting for the fact that individuals working for larger employers earn more than individuals working for small employers.Building on recent research, the theory suggests that individuals hired by larger firms possess more impressive...

In this study I estimate that about 23% to 47% of older American on-the-job seekers search for another job because they feel insecure at their current employment. I also analyze whether unemployment insurance (UI) affects this relationship between job insecurity and on-the-job search. I find...

Job search is a key choice variable in theories of labor markets but is difficult to measure directly. We develop a job search activity index based on Google search data, the Google Job Search Index (GJSI). We validate the GJSI with both survey- and web-based measures of job search. Unlike those...

We develop an alternative theory to the aggregate matching function in which workers search for jobs through a network of firms: the labor flow network. The lack of an edge between two companies indicates the impossibility of labor flows between them due to high frictions. In equilibrium, firms'...

We document gender sorting of candidates into gender-typed jobs at the point of initial application to a company. At this step of the hiring process, the firm has implemented a policy whereby organizational screeners’ discretion has been eliminated such that there is no opportunity for contact...

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the authors estimate the returns to job search, mobility, and the interaction of search and mobility for young men and women. They find statistically significant gender differences in mobility patterns and search behavior, but not in the...

Using Canadian Displaced Workers Survey data for 1981-86, the author studies the effect of Canadian advance notice laws on displaced workers' jobless durations. So-called group notice laws, which apply to large-scale layoffs, reduced the jobless durations of plant closure victims, but individual...

Should we cut the level of unemployment benefits, or reduce their potential duration? The answer depends on the way the unemployed search behaviour and unemployment insurance schemes interact. In this paper, we consider that unemployment insurance funds can be used to improve search. Resulting...

**Below is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract.** We set up a general equilibrium model of a two-sector economy in which movement costs across sectors play a crucial role in explaining the cyclical fluctuations of employment, even though there is little labor reallocation...