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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...

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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

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

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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 …

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Friends' networks and job finding rates

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2011

Social interactions have important consequences for labour market outcomes. Yet the growing literature has relied on indirect definitions of networks. We present the first evidence based on direct information on friends' networks. We address issues of correlated effects with instrumental...

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Employed and unemployed job seekers: Are they substitutes?

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2010

The job search literature suggests that an increase in the proportion of job seekers who are employed reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence indicating that employed and unemployed job seekers have similar observed characteristics or that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288905

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...

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Differences in employment histories between employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2010

by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly …

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Occupational change and mobility among employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2011

We use data from the Labour Force Survey to show that employed and unemployed job seekers in Great Britain originate from different occupations and find jobs in different occupations. We find substantial differences in occupational mobility between job seekers: employed job seekers are most...

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Does neighbourhood unemployment affect the springboard effect of low pay?

Plum, Alexander; Knies, Gundi - 2015

robust evidence that the future unemployment risk is lower for those who are currently on low pay compared to those who are … most marked in neighbourhoods with high unemployment which is attributable to the much poorer prospects of the unemployed …

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