The Intensity of Job Search and Search Duration
We use micro data on applications to job openings by individuals on a job search website to study the relationship between search intensity and search duration. Our data allow us to control for several factors that can affect the measured relationship between intensity and duration, including the composition of jobseekers and changes in the number of available job openings over the duration of search. We find that jobseekers send fewer applications per week as search continues. We also find that long-duration jobseekers tend to exert the most search effort. Controlling for the local stock of vacancies does little to affect the result, mainly because jobseekers continue to apply to older vacancies well into their search spell.
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2014
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Authors: | Kudlyak, Marianna ; Faberman, Jason |
Institutions: | Society for Economic Dynamics - SED |
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