We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...

Setting the scene : unemployment in China / Malcolm Warner and Grace O. M. Lee -- Primitive accumulation, transition and unemployment in China / Michael Webber and Zhu Ying -- Urban unemployment in China : a background analysis (1995-2003) / Hu Angang and Sheng Xin -- Unemployment in China and...