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The informational value of job-search data and the dynamics of search behaviour

The informational value of job-search data and the dynamics of search behaviour
The informational value of job-search data and the dynamics of search behaviour
Labour-market analysis places much emphasis on the concept of search. But there is insufficient empirical information on (a) the relationship between reported job-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 being “out of the labour force”. Transitions during joblessness in and out of search and among the various categories of non-search are found to be only modest.
labour-market flows, job search, unemployment, hungary
0001-6373
399-419
Micklewright, J.
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Nagy, G.
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Micklewright, J.
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Nagy, G.
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Micklewright, J. and Nagy, G. (2002) The informational value of job-search data and the dynamics of search behaviour. Acta Oeconomica, 52 (4), 399-419.

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Abstract

Labour-market analysis places much emphasis on the concept of search. But there is insufficient empirical information on (a) the relationship between reported job-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 being “out of the labour force”. Transitions during joblessness in and out of search and among the various categories of non-search are found to be only modest.

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Published date: 2002
Keywords: labour-market flows, job search, unemployment, hungary

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Local EPrints ID: 34321
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/34321
ISSN: 0001-6373
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Date deposited: 17 May 2007
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:47

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Author: J. Micklewright
Author: G. Nagy

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