Home-ownership, unemployed’s job search behavior and post-unemployment outcomes

Marco Caliendo, Anne Gielen and Robert Mahlstedt

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 137, issue C, 218-221

Abstract: Using detailed German survey data, we show that home-owners freshly entering unemployment are less geographically mobile than their renting counterparts. However, they do not compensate their restricted mobility by more intensive or different search behavior and do not face negative effects on labor market outcomes one year later.

Keywords: Job search behavior; Home-ownership; Search effort; Reservation wage; Unemployment duration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.11.010

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