a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: D83 J64 R14 R23 Keywords: City structure On-the-job search Unemployment Efficiency Relocation path Career path This study develops an on-the-job search model involving spatial structure. In this model, workers are either employed and commute frequently to a central business district (CBD) or unemployed and commute less frequently to the CBD in search of...

Differences in job search behaviour and access to high quality informal networks may be an important reason why immigrants fare worse than natives in many European labour markets. In this study, we design and conduct a survey of newly hired workers in the Swedish labour market to analyse if there are ethnic differences in the choice of search intensity/methods and in the successful search metho...

Guided by theory and research on self-regulation and goal pursuit, we offer a framework for studying the dynamics of unemployed individuals’ job search. A daily survey over three weeks demonstrated vacillation in job seeker affect and, to a lesser extent, “reemployment efficacy.” Daily perceived job search progress was related to this vacillation. Lower perceived progress on any given day was r...

We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements, and test the main implications of directed search: high wages should attract more applicants, but some applicants apply only to low wages even if higher wage offers are present. Both parts of the theory find support among randomised job offers, suggesting an allocative role for wage competition in search markets. We calibrate a directed se...

This paper explores the factors of enhancing employed job seekers intention to use social networking sites as a job search tool. 190 survey questionnaires were distributed to employed job seekers who have used social networking sites via the snowball sampling approach. The collected data were analysed using both linear and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that perceived usefulne...

The purpose of this research is to measure and subsequently prioritize the value of job search websites based on the perspectives of users. AHP methodology is utilized to gather and analyze data. A total of 200 job search website users were selected. Based on the finding of this research, the value of job search websites can be divided into the following categories: economic, relational, knowle...

This paper considers a novel class of birandom job search problem, in which the job offers are sampled by the job searcher from a finite job set with equivalent probability and their wages are characterized as independent but maybe not identically nonnegative random variables. The job searcher knows the job offer’s wage distribution when he samples the job offer. Since the offered wage is a ran...

Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations After decades of stability, the technologies used by workers to locate new jobs began to change rapidly with the diffusion of internet access in the late 1990’s. Which types of persons incorporated the internet into their job search strategy, and did searching for work on line help these workers find new jobs faster? We address these questions usin...