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Job Seekers' Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence, and Bias.
- Source :
- American Economic Review; Jan2021, Vol. 111 Issue 1, p324-363, 40p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This paper uses job seekers' elicited beliefs about job finding to disentangle the sources of the decline in job-finding rates by duration of unemployment. We document that beliefs have strong predictive power for job finding, but are not revised downward when remaining unemployed and are subject to optimistic bias, especially for the long-term unemployed. Leveraging the predictive power of beliefs, we find substantial heterogeneity in job finding with the resulting dynamic selection explaining most of the observed negative duration dependence in job finding. Moreover, job seekers' beliefs underreact to heterogeneity in job finding, distorting search behavior and increasing long-term unemployment. (JEL D83, E24, J22, J64, J65) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- UNEMPLOYED people
JOB applications
UNEMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYEE selection
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00028282
- Volume :
- 111
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Economic Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147808711
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20190808