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Explaining Differences in Job Search Outcomes Between Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216753
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Job Competition and the Wage Curve
Longhi, Simonetta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional … wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583490
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Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers: Are They Substitutes?
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is no evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are similar or apply for the same jobs. We combine the Labour Force Survey and the British Household Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151028