Job search and unemployment insurance: New evidence from time use data |
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Authors: | Alan B. Krueger Andreas Mueller |
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Affiliation: | 1. Woodrow Wilson School and Economics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, United States;2. NBER;3. Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden;4. Economics Department, Princeton University, United States |
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Abstract: | This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The major findings are: 1) the average U.S. unemployed worker devotes about 41 min to job search on weekdays, which is substantially more than their European counterparts; 2) workers who expect to be recalled by their previous employer search substantially less than the average unemployed worker; 3) across the 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity between ?1.6 and ?2.2; 4) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion; and 5) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI. |
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