Modelling the process of job search
- 30 April 1985
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Econometrics
- Vol. 28 (1), 29-49
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4076(85)90065-x
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the specification and estimation of a genuinely structural but static model of individual search behaviour in which the estimated reservation wage actually satisfies the optimality condition. The identification of the parameters of interest is achieved by the a priori specification of the vacancy-wage distribution. The model is estimated using the data from the 1978–1979 D.H.S.S. Cohort Study of the Unemployed. The estimated parameters reflect, in the main, our prior views and generate a number of interesting results. In particular the elasticity of unemployment spell duration with respect to unemployment benefits is estimated to be around 0.18–0.26.Keywords
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