Search Time, Unemployment, and the Migration Decision

Goss, Ernst P.; Schoening, Niles C.

doi:10.2307/145949

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“…or Herzog et al 1993. Most of these studies used US data (e.g., Goss and Schoening 1984;DaVanzo 1978). The literature reports mixed findings for the European context.…”

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Unemployment and willingness to accept job offers: results of a factorial survey experiment

Abraham

Auspurg

Bähr

et al. 2013

J Labour Market Res

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Abstract Matching individuals to jobs is a fundamental problem in any labour market. This paper focuses on job characteristics, such as wages, job quality, and distance from the current place of residence, and the impact of these characteristics on the willingness of employed and unemployed individuals to accept new job offers. Using an experimental factorial survey module (FSM) implemented in the fifth wave of a large population survey (Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security), the willingness of employed and unemployed labour market participants to accept new job offers was compared while considering job characteristics like gain of income or commuting distance. In this study, unemployed and employed individuals received the same set of hypothetical job offers. Consistent with theoretical arguments, the about 20,000 evaluations provided by about 4,000 respondents showed that unemployed participants generally exhibit a greater willingness to accept new job offers than employed ones. Moreover, unemployed individuals were likely to make more concessions than employed individuals with respect to job quality, such as accepting fixed-term job offers. Interestingly, little evidence for different decisionmaking or weightings of mobility costs was found, which enables us to conclude that interregional unemployment disparities can scarcely be explained by unemployed individuals lacking the willingness to work or relocate. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…or Herzog et al 1993. Most of these studies used US data (e.g., Goss and Schoening 1984;DaVanzo 1978). The literature reports mixed findings for the European context.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unemployment and willingness to accept job offers: results of a factorial survey experiment

Abraham

Auspurg

Bähr

et al. 2013

J Labour Market Res

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“…Goss and Schoening (1984) show a positive effect of unemployment status, but a negative effect of unemployment duration on actual migration in the United States. On the other hand, Hughes and McCormick (1985) show a positive effect of unemployment duration on migration intention in the UK.…”

Section: Effects Of Unemployment Duration On Willingness To Move For mentioning

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Willingness to Move for Work and Unemployment Duration in Spain

1999

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This paper examines unemployed workers' willingness to move for work and its relationship to their unemployment duration in Spain. We use a hypothetical question in the Spanish Labour Force Survey: ‘Would you accept a job offer which implied a change of residence?’ The main finding is that, while family responsibility, age and education are important in determining individuals’ migration willingness, the duration of unemployment does not show any significant effect, even after controlling for unobserved fixed individual heterogeneity. However, the significant improvement in migration willingness after the exhaustion of unemployment benefits (or when other household members become unemployed) suggests that economic incentives could play an important role in increasing worker mobility. We also find that job‐finding probability is significantly higher among those with positive migration attitudes than among others.Universidad del País Vasco

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“…Hughes and Mc McCormick, 1987) and that persons with low income may be liquidity constrained 5 . Furthermore, we include variables on the duration of unemployment in the last two years, because Jackman and Savouri (1992) as well as Gross and Schoening (1984) provide evidence that long term unemployed are less likely to migrate.…”

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confidence: 99%