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The Role of Selective Job Search in UK Unemployment

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Selective search where unemployed job losers confine their job seeking efforts to matches in the preseparation sector has attracted considerable attention as a possible source of high and persistent unemployment. However, this idea is questionable. Those opting for selection may do so because this strategy is more effective at generating an acceptable offer. Using U.K. microdata, the author finds evidence in support of the latter view. Selective searchers cannot account for the persistence of high unemployment since the early 1980s.

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  • Thomas, Jonathan M, 1998. "The Role of Selective Job Search in UK Unemployment," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 108(448), pages 646-664, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecj:econjl:v:108:y:1998:i:448:p:646-64
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    1. Melanie Arntz & Ralf Wilke, 2009. "Unemployment Duration in Germany: Individual and Regional Determinants of Local Job Finding, Migration and Subsidized Employment," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(1), pages 43-61.
    2. Van den Berg, Gerard J., 2001. "Duration models: specification, identification and multiple durations," Handbook of Econometrics, in: J.J. Heckman & E.E. Leamer (ed.), Handbook of Econometrics, edition 1, volume 5, chapter 55, pages 3381-3460, Elsevier.

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