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Do the unemployed accept jobs too quickly? : a comparison with employed job seekers
Longhi, Simonetta - 2015
This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283136
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Employed and unemployed job seekers and the business cycle
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark P. - In: Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics 76 (2014) 4, pp. 463-483
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010474906
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Employed and unemployed job seekers and the business cycle
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark P. - 2013
The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are similar or apply for the same jobs. We compare employed and unemployed job seekers in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687137
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Unhappiness in unemployment : is it the same for everyone?
Longhi, Simonetta; Nandi, Alita; Bryan, Mark L.; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875433
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Life satisfaction and unemployment : the role of gender attitudes and work identity
Longhi, Simonetta; Nandi, Alita; Bryan, Mark L.; … - In: Scottish journal of political economy : the journal of … 71 (2024) 2, pp. 219-236
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536384
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Do the Unemployed Accept Jobs Too Quickly? A Comparison with Employed Job Seekers
Longhi, Simonetta - 2015
This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307339
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Employed and unemployed job seekers and the business cycle
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2013
The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are similar or apply for the same jobs. We compare employed and unemployed job seekers in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331206
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Job competition and the wage curve
Longhi, Simonetta - 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/10010269699
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Explaining differences in job search outcomes between employed and unemployed job seekers
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 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/10010278502
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Employed and unemployed job seekers: Are they substitutes?
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 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/10010278688