negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. The model … this apparent puzzle by modeling skill development (learning by doing on the job, skill loss during unemployment) and …

We use an audit study approach to investigate how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level "interim" job … callback from a potential employer. First, the results show no relationship between callback rates and the duration of … unemployment. Second, workers age 50 and older are significantly less likely to receive a callback. Third, taking an interim job …

extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …

spell duration and improved post-unemployment job quality. In contrast to many previous empirical studies that have … addressed the negative benefit effect on duration only, the current paper jointly addresses the causal effect of unemployment … benefits on both unemployment duration and post-unemployment wages. Based on panel data from the Survey of Income and Program …

; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI … unemployment for a cross-section of job seekers is only slightly biased by length-based sampling. -- Unemployment ; unemployment … 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity …

found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with longer unemployment durations in 1998/2000 - using comparable data … from a decade later. We find that IJS now appears to be effective: it reduces individual workers' unemployment durations by …. IJS appears to be most effective in reducing unemployment durations when used to contact friends and relatives, to send …