Does eliminating benefit eligibility requirements improve unemployed job search and labour market outcomes?

Does migration matter? Job search outcomes for the unemployed.

The US has long been characterized by its geographically mobile population, with workers historically seeking new or better jobs in different locales as dictated by either opportunity or necessity. It is now generally accepted that the main determinants of interregional labor force migration are differential employment growth and amenity-adjusted earnings. The authors investigate migration's ...

Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and subsequent transitions to unemployment and inactivity. Sec...

How Do the Unemployed Search for a Job? Evidence from the EU Labour Force Survey #312

Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the job search methods of the unemployed in Europe. The analysis focuses on the importance of individual and household characteristics in this context, as well as on cross-country diff erences in Europe. Our fi ndings suggest that both individual and household characteristics play an important role, with the latter being more decisive for wom...

How Do the Unemployed Search for a Job? Evidence from the EU Labour Force Survey

Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the job search methods of the unemployed in Europe. The analysis focuses on the importance of individual and household characteristics in this context, as well as on cross-country diff erences in Europe. Our fi ndings suggest that both individual and household characteristics play an important role, with the latter being more decisive for wom...

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