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

Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations

Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations After decades of stability, the technologies used by workers to locate new jobs began to change rapidly with the diffusion of internet access in the late 1990’s. Which types of persons incorporated the internet into their job search strategy, and did searching for work on line help these workers find new jobs faster? We address these questions usin...

Job search theory, labour supply and unemployment duration

This paper presents a structural model of sequential job search, in which the individual decision makers incorporate labour supply in the job acceptance decision. The model satisfies the reservation wage property. Given the level of the offered wage rate, individuals can choose the number of weekly working hours optimally, by maximizing utility subject to the budget constraint, Specific attenti...

Job Search and Youth Unemployment : Analysis of Swedish Data

Online Job Search and Unemployment Insurance during the Great Recession

The 2007‐2009 U.S. recession led to large increases in the potential duration of unemployment benefits (PBD), which could decrease job search effort. I measure search effort by job applications on the popular website Careerbuilder.com. Using an event study and nonlinearities in the relationship between PBD and the unemployment rate, I find that a one‐week increase in PBD decreases state‐le...

No . 734 TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS , ON - THE - JOB SEARCH , AND UNEMPLOYMENT

This paper studies the impact of long-run productivity growth on job …nding and separation rates, and thus the unemployment rate, using a search and matching model. We incorporate disembodied technological progress and on-the-job search into the endogenous job separation model of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994). The incorporation of on-the-job search allows faster growth to reduce unemployment ...