TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Faberman, Jason
AU  - Mueller, Andreas I.
AU  - Sahin, Aysegül
AU  - Topa, Giorgio
        TI  - Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed
        PY  - 2017/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10960
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10960
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - wage dispersion
KW  - search effort
KW  - on-the-job search
KW  - unemployment
KW  - job search
        ER  -