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The Informational Value of Job Search Data and the Dynamics of Search Behaviour: Evidence from Hungary

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John Micklewright () (UNICEF International Child Development Centre)
Gyula Nagy () (Department of Human Resources, Budapest University of Economics)

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Labour market analysis places much emphasis on the concept of search. But there is insufficient empirical information on (a) the relationship between reported search and job-finding and (b) how search behaviour changes over a spell without work. We investigate these issues using a sample constructed from Hungarian labour force survey panel data of the flow from jobs to the state of "joblessness". The results on job exits call into question aspects of the standard international classification of "unemployment" and "out of the labour force". Transitions during joblessness in and out of search and the various categories of non-search are found to be only modest.

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Paper provided by Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in its series Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market with number 9901.

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Date of creation: Mar 1999
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  1. Wadsworth, Jonathan, 1991. "Unemployment Benefits and Search Effort in the UK Labour Market," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 58(229), pages 17-34, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Jones, Stephen R G & Riddell, W Craig, 1995. "The Measurement of Labor Force Dynamics with Longitudinal Data: The Labour Market Activity Survey Filter," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 13(2), pages 351-85, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Francesco Pastore, 2007. "Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU: What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?," IZA Discussion Papers 3209, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  2. Gabor Korosi, 2002. "Labour Adjustment and Efficiency in Hungary," Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market 0204, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. [Downloadable!]
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