Kroft, Kory; Lange, Fabian; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 128 (2013) 3, pp. 1123-1167
This article studies the role of employer behavior in generating "negative duration dependence"--the adverse effect of a longer unemployment spell--by sending fictitious résumés to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results indicate that the likelihood of receiving a callback for an...