This study examines how the financial buffer of unemployed individuals affects the duration of their unemployment and … unemployment duration, which is consistent with the theory that individuals with financial buffers are able to search for new …

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

with the unemployment rate. It also predicts that the share of newly created jobs fulfilled by current inhabitants of a … city increases with the unemployment rate. I test this model with data from the United States census between 1980 and 2000 … city with 3.7% unemployment the average local employment multiplier is 0.91 for current inhabitants and 0.60 for migrants …