@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp9112, author={Longhi, Simonetta}, title={Do the Unemployed Accept Jobs Too Quickly? A Comparison with Employed Job Seekers}, year={2015}, month={Jun}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={9112}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9112}, abstract={This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better quality jobs. Differences in job quality are tiny when unobserved heterogeneity and selection into accepting a job are accounted for. Hence, differences are mostly due to behaviour of unemployed people rather than negative signaling or employer discrimination.}, keywords={on-the-job search;unemployment;job-finding rate;job quality}, }