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Do You Need a Job to Find a Job?

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Cobb-Clark, Deborah (SPEAR, RSSS, Australian National University and IZA Bonn)
Frijters, Paul () (RSSS, Australian National University)
Kalb, Guyonne (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne)

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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.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1211.

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Keywords: job-offer arrival rates; reservation wages; wage-offer distribution; directed search;

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C41 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Duration Analysis
C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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