To Search or Not to Search: Female Labor Supply Following Job Displacement

Michael Podgursky and Paul Swaim
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Paul Swaim: Economic Research Service

Eastern Economic Journal, 1992, vol. 18, issue 1, 111-124

Abstract: Following permanent layoffs most women search for and secure new jobs, but some withdraw from the labor force. In this paper, the authors develop a joint model of the choice to engage in post-displacement job search and the distribution of unemployment duration for searchers, and estimate the model using data from the Displaced Worker Survey. Estimates of the resulting "split-population" model show that labor force withdrawal is an important factor explaining the distribution of jobless spells for women.

Keywords: Female; Job Search; Labor Supply; Unemployment Duration; Unemployment; Women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J22 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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