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Job Search Outcomes For The Employed And Unemployed, David M. Blau, Philip K. Robins
Job Search Outcomes For The Employed And Unemployed, David M. Blau, Philip K. Robins
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This paper examines how four components of the job search process--the choice of search methods, the choice of how many firms to contact, the rate at which offers are received, and the acceptance or rejection of an offer--influence the job-finding rate. A reduced-form model of job search is estimated that takes account of the fact that users of a particular method of job search are not a random subset of all searchers. The empirical analysis focuses on differences in search behavior between the employed and unemployed. A key finding of the analysis is that the offer rate per contact …