Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed

Jason Faberman (), Andreas Mueller, Aysegül Sahin () and Giorgio Topa
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Aysegül Sahin: Princeton University

No 10960, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using a unique new survey, we study the relationship between search effort and outcomes for employed and non-employed workers. We find that the employed fare better than the non-employed in job search: they receive more offers per application and are offered higher pay even after controlling for observable characteristics. We use an on-the-job search model with endogenous search effort and find that unobserved heterogeneity explains less than a third of the residual wage offer differential. The model calibrated using various moments from our survey provides a good fit to the data and implies a reasonable flow value of unemployment.

Keywords: wage dispersion; search effort; on-the-job search; unemployment; job search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J29 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 73 pages
Date: 2017-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-lab and nep-mac
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Published - published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (4),1743-1779

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Journal Article: Job Search Behavior Among the Employed and Non‐Employed (2022)
Working Paper: Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed (2017)
Working Paper: Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed (2016)
Working Paper: Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Unemployed (2014)
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