%0 Report
        %A Faberman, Jason
%A Mueller, Andreas I.
%A Sahin, Aysegül
%A Topa, Giorgio
        %T Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10960
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10960
        %X Using a unique new survey, we study the relationship between search effort and outcomes for employed and non-employed workers. We find that the employed fare better than the non-employed in job search: they receive more offers per application and are offered higher pay even after controlling for observable characteristics. We use an on-the-job search model with endogenous search effort and find that unobserved heterogeneity explains less than a third of the residual wage offer differential. The model calibrated using various moments from our survey provides a good fit to the data and implies a reasonable flow value of unemployment.
        %K wage dispersion
%K search effort
%K on-the-job search
%K unemployment
%K job search