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Deconstructing Job Search Behavior

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  • Sekyu Choi
  • Stefano Banfi
  • Benjamín Villena-Roldán

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We use an unusually rich data from a Chilean job board to document novel facts regarding job search for unemployed and employed seekers. We show how application behavior is influenced by (1) demographics such as gender, age, and marital status, (2) alignment between applicant wage expectations and wage others, (3) applicant fit into ad requirements such as education, experience, job location and occupation (4) timing variables, including unemployment duration, job tenure (for on-the-job searchers) and business cycle conditions. This empirical evidence can discipline current and future search-theoretical frameworks.

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  • Sekyu Choi & Stefano Banfi & Benjamín Villena-Roldán, 2019. "Deconstructing Job Search Behavior," Bristol Economics Discussion Papers 19/707, School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK.
    • Handle: RePEc:bri:uobdis:19/707
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    1. Jonas Fluchtmann & Anita M. Glenny & Nikolaj A. Harmon & Jonas Maibom, 2024. "The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 16(2), pages 182-219, May.
    2. Sekyu Choi & Benjamin Villena-Roldan & Nincen Figueroa, 2025. "Posted Wage Cyclicality: Evidence from High-Quality Vacancy Data," Bristol Economics Discussion Papers 25/812, School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK.
    3. Choi, Sekyu & Figueroa, Nincen & Villena-Roldán, Benjamin, 2020. "Wage Cyclicality Revisited: The Role of Hiring Standards," MPRA Paper 120307, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 21 Apr 2022.
    4. Elisabetta Gentile & Nikita Kohli & Nivedhitha Subramanian & Zunia Tirmazee & Kate Vyborny, 2023. "Barriers to Entry: Decomposing the Gender Gap in Job Search in Urban Pakistan," ADB Economics Working Paper Series 707, Asian Development Bank.
    5. Bransch, Felix, 2021. "Job search intensity of unemployed workers and the business cycle," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 205(C).
    6. Suguru Otani, 2024. "Nonparametric Estimation of Matching Efficiency and Elasticity on a Private On-the-Job Search Platform: Evidence from Japan, 2014-2024," Papers 2410.17011, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2025.

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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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