Guided by theory and research on self-regulation and goal pursuit, we offer a framework for studying the dynamics of unemployed individuals’ job search. A daily survey over three weeks demonstrated vacillation in job seeker affect and, to a lesser extent, “reemployment efficacy.” Daily perceived job search progress was related to this vacillation. Lower perceived progress on any given day was r...

We propose a novel temporal-based theory of how a painful social comparative emotion – job search envy – transmutes as deviant or normative job search behaviors (resume fraud or search effort). We theorize that as job searches progress across time or discrete events, temporal-based pressure increases via perceptions that situations are less changeable or more critical, propelling envious job se...

We propose a novel temporal-based theory of how a painful social comparative emotion—job search envy—transmutes as deviant or normative job search behaviors (resume fraud or search effort). We theorize that as job searches progress across time or discrete events, temporal-based pressure increases via perceptions that situations are less changeable or more critical, propelling envious job seeker...

In models of search on the job (e.g. Kenneth Burdett and Dale Mortensen 1998, Burdett and Melvyn Coles 2003, Alain Delacroix and Shouyong Shi 2006), employed and unemployed workers search the labor market for job openings. Workers who are unemployed are willing to accept any job that makes them better off than enjoying leisure and continuing to search. Workers who are employed are willing to ac...

In the theoretical literature on optimal job search, models have been developed for infinite and finite search horizons, costly and subsidized search, zero and positive discount rates, search with and without recall of past wage offers, and known and unknown wage offer distributions. Much of the literature involves models of search by individual agents, although some papers embed job search in ...

In order to analyze the labor market through search and matching theory, we need deep parameters namely, rate of inflow to the unemployment pool and job-finding rate. In other words, these rates are primary parameters of matching function; hence, estimating these parameters is an essential step for the use of search and matching theory in every economy. In this paper, we estimate these rates of...

Workers who lose their jobs can become re-employed either by being recalled to their previous employers or by finding new jobs. Workers’ chances for recall should influence their job search strategies, so the rates of exit from unemployment by these two routes should be directly related. We solve a job search model to establish, in theory, a negative relationship between the recall and new job ...