Do you need a job to find a job?
By: by Deborah Cobb-Clark, Paul Frijters, Guyonne Kalb.
Contributors: Frijters, Paul.; Kalb, Guyonne.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1211; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1211
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Job offers -- Australia.; Job hunting -- Australia.; Unemployed -- Australia.
Description: "This paper investigates whether job offers arrive more frequently for those in employment than for those in unemployment. To this end, we take advantage of a unique Australian data set which contains information on both accepted and rejected job offers. Our estimation strategy takes account of the selectivity associated with the initial employment state and we allow for individual heterogeneity in the probability of obtaining jobs. Our results reveal that, across the wage range, individuals are about equally likely to obtain a job offer in employment as in unemployment. This implies that encouraging unemployed (rather than employed) search through the provision of unemployment benefits does not improve the speed of a job match"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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