Abstract This paper examines how individuals select into job search in terms of their individual qualifications and perceptions measures recruiting additional applicants with a modest job-search subsidy affects selection. I use experimental evidence to examine individuals’ decisions attend participate fair. Thirteen percent invited but unsubsidized respondents the fair, they are positively sele...

This study investigated 3 broad classes of individual-differences variables (job-search motives, competencies, and constraints) as predictors of job-search intensity among unemployed job seekers. Also assessed was the relationship between job-search intensity and reemployment success in a longitudinal context. Results show significant relationships between the predictors employment commitment, ...

this paper argues that a risk averse of workers after-tax reservation wage the difference between her reservation wage and the tax needed to fund the unemployment insurance system when liquidity constraint binds exists and it is unique. the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wage to unemployment benefit shows the disincentive effect, i.e. higher unem...

We explore the impact of successful job search after childbirth on mothers' labor market careers. Using a bounding approach and administrative data, we find strong heterogeneity in returns to leaving pre-birth employer. Moving new employer leads an increase re-employment earnings only for mothers at upper part distribution. For these mothers, initial also increases long-term earnings. provide e...