Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-For Jobs

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fluchtmann, Jonas; Glenny, Anita M.; Harmon, Nikolaj; Maibom, Jonas
• 署名单位: Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); Aarhus University; University of Copenhagen; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/725165
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1175-1217
• 关键词: labor-market; duration dependence; wage dispersion; directed search; equilibrium; INFORMATION; insurance; benefits; mismatch; workers

摘要

Using data on applied-for jobs for the universe of Danish unemployment insurance recipients, we examine variation in job search behavior both across individuals and over time during unemployment spells. We find large differences in the level of applied-for wages across individuals, but over time all individuals adjust wages downward in the same way. The decline in applied-for wages over time is descriptively small but economically important in standard models of job search. We find similar results when examining variation in the nonwage characteristics of applied-for jobs and in the search methods used to find them. We discuss implications for theory.