The Role of Selective Job Search in UK Unemployment

Jonathan M Thomas

Economic Journal, 1998, vol. 108, issue 448, 646-64

Abstract: Selective search where unemployed job losers confine their job seeking efforts to matches in the preseparation sector has attracted considerable attention as a possible source of high and persistent unemployment. However, this idea is questionable. Those opting for selection may do so because this strategy is more effective at generating an acceptable offer. Using U.K. microdata, the author finds evidence in support of the latter view. Selective searchers cannot account for the persistence of high unemployment since the early 1980s.

Date: 1998
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