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Majority of Hires Never Report Looking for a Job

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  • Carlos Carrillo-Tudela
  • Bart Hobijn
  • Patryk Perkowski
  • Ludo Visschers

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Every month, millions of workers search for new jobs although they already have one. About one-tenth of these searchers switch employers in the following month. However, most of the job switchers in the United States never reported having looked for a job. This implies that, rather than those workers finding jobs, the jobs actually found them.

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  • Carlos Carrillo-Tudela & Bart Hobijn & Patryk Perkowski & Ludo Visschers, 2015. "Majority of Hires Never Report Looking for a Job," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, vol. 2015(10), pages 1-5, March.
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    DOI: 10.24148/el2015-10
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    1. Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos & Summerfield, Fraser & Visschers, Ludo, 2024. "Workers' Task and Employer Mobility over the Business Cycle," CEPR Discussion Papers 19786, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
    2. Jan Eeckhout & Ilse Lindenlaub, 2019. "Unemployment Cycles," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 11(4), pages 175-234, October.
    3. Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos & Launov, Andrey & Robin, Jean-Marc, 2021. "The fall in german unemployment: A flow analysis," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 132(C).
    4. Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos & Hobijn, Bart & She, Powen & Visschers, Ludo, 2016. "The extent and cyclicality of career changes: Evidence for the U.K," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 18-41.
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    8. Hie Joo Ahn & Ling Shao, 2017. "Precautionary On-the-Job Search over the Business Cycle," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2017-025, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

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