scholarly journals Job Search Behavior over the Business Cycle

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshihiko Mukoyama ◽  
Christina Patterson ◽  
Ayşegül Şahin
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Search Effort ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
Search And Matching Model ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
Set Up

We create a novel measure of job search effort exploiting the American Time Use and Current Population Surveys. We examine the cyclicality of search effort using time-series, cross-state, and individual variation and find that it is countercyclical. We then set up a search and matching model with endogenous search effort and show that search effort does not amplify labor market fluctuations but rather dampens them. Lastly, we examine the role of search effort in driving recent unemployment dynamics and show that the unemployment rate would have been 0.5 to 1 percentage points higher in the 2008–2014 period had search effort not increased. (JEL E24, E32, J22, J64)

scholarly journals Job Search Behavior over the Business Cycle

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshihiko Mukoyama ◽  
Christina Patterson ◽  
Aysegul Sahin
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycle ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
The Business Cycle

Influence of Health on Job-Search Behavior and Re-employment: The Role of Job-Search Cognitions and Coping Resources

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 670-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. E. Carlier ◽  
M. Schuring ◽  
F. J. van Lenthe ◽  
A. Burdorf
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
And Coping

Responses to job demands: moderating role of worker cooperatives

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 346-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhokeun Park
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
Worker Cooperatives ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of organizational commitment in the relationship between job demands and job search behavior. The study also explores the moderating role of worker cooperatives in the relationship between job demands and organizational commitment. There is little extant research on the relationships of job demands with employee behaviors, and the roles of worker cooperatives in those relationships. Design/methodology/approach Using the multi-level moderated mediation model, this study analyzed surveys conducted in capitalist firms and worker cooperatives in the metropolitan area of Seoul in 2016. Findings This study provided evidence that organizational commitment mediated the relationship between job demands and job search behavior in the total sample. The findings revealed that worker cooperatives moderated the relationship between job demands and organizational commitment. In other words, while the negative relationship between job demands and organizational commitment was significant in capitalist firms, it was not maintained in worker cooperatives. Research limitations/implications This study provides implications on how job demands are related to job search behavior, and how worker cooperatives may alleviate the adverse effects of job demands on employee attitudes and behaviors. A potential limitation of the present study is that individual-level variables were measured by self-reports. Originality/value While previous studies on the JDR model have examined the interaction between job demands and individual levels of resources, the current study investigated the interaction between job demands and organizational levels of resources.

scholarly journals Explaining Job Search Behavior in Unemployed Youngsters Beyond Perceived Employability: The Role of Psychological Capital

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Magdalena Fernández-Valera ◽  
Mariano Meseguer de Pedro ◽  
Nele De Cuyper ◽  
Mariano García-Izquierdo ◽  
Maria Isabel Soler Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Perceived Employability ◽  
Job Search Behavior

The toll of perceived injustice on job search self-efficacy and behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Taggar ◽  
Lisa K. J. Kuron
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Search Strategy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Perceived Injustice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Job Search Behavior

Purpose – Individuals normally make fairness judgements when experiencing negative outcomes on an important task, such as finding employment. Fairness is an affect-laden subjective experience. Perceptions of injustice can cause resource depletion in unemployed job seekers, potentially leading to reduced self-regulation. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of: first, justice perceptions during a job search and their impact on job search self-efficacy (JSSE); second, the mediating role of JSSE between justice perceptions and job search strategies; and third, associations between job search strategies and quantity and quality of job search behavior. Design/methodology/approach – Unemployed individuals (n=254) who were actively searching for a job reported on their past job search experiences with respect to justice, completed measures of JSSE, and reported recent job search behavior. Findings – Results reveal the potentially harmful impact of perceived injustice on job search strategies and the mediating role of JSSE, a self-regulatory construct and an important resource when looking for a job. Specifically, perceived injustice is negatively associated with JSSE. Reduced JSSE is associated with a haphazard job search strategy and less likelihood of exploratory and focussed strategies. A haphazard job search strategy is associated with making fewer job applications and poor decision making. Conversely, perceived justice is associated with higher JSSE and exploratory and focussed job search strategies. These two strategies are generally associated with higher quality job search behavior. Research limitations/implications – There are two major limitations. First, while grounded in social-cognitive theory of self-regulation and conservation of resources (COR) theory, a cross-sectional research design limits determination of causality in the model of JSSE as a central social-cognitive mechanism explaining how justice impacts job search strategies. Second, some results may be conservative because social desirability may have restricted the range of negative responses. Practical implications – This study provides insights to individuals who are supporting job seekers (e.g. career counselors, coaches, employers, and social networks). Specifically, interventions aimed at reducing perceptions of injustice, increasing JSSE, and improving job search strategies and behavior may ameliorate the damaging impact of perceived injustice. Originality/value – This study is the first to examine perceived justice in the job search process using social-cognitive theory of self-regulation and COR theory. Moreover, we provide further validation to a relatively new and under-researched job search strategy typology by linking the strategies to the quantity and quality of job search behaviors.

Economic Job Search and Decision-Making Models

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard J. van den Berg ◽  
Arne Uhlendorff
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Search Theory ◽  
Reservation Wage ◽  
Search Effort ◽  
Job Offers ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
Decision Making Models

The economic job search theory is based on the assumption that individuals have imperfect information about jobs and wages. It takes time to find an acceptable job and individuals have to make decisions about their job search behavior. The optimal job search behavior is characterized by the reservation wage, that is, the wage above which job offers are accepted, and by the search effort. Both components depend on factors such as the income during job search and the probability of receiving a job offer. Search effort can be described by the amount of resources used for finding a job, which includes time but can also include the type of search channels. We present the basic models of economic job search theory and selected empirical findings, in which we focus on the job search behavior of unemployed individuals.

Unemployment Insurance and Job Search Behavior*

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioana Marinescu ◽  
Daphné Skandalis
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Individual Response ◽  
Search Models ◽  
Search Effort ◽  
Reservation Wages ◽  
Unemployment Spell ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
The Individual

Abstract How does unemployment insurance (UI) affect unemployed workers’ search behavior? Search models predict that, until benefit exhaustion, UI depresses job search effort and increases reservation wages. Over an unemployment spell, search effort should increase up to benefit exhaustion, and stay high thereafter. Meanwhile, reservation wages should decrease up to benefit exhaustion and stay low thereafter. To test these predictions, we link administrative registers to data on job search behavior from a major online job search platform in France. We follow over 400,000 workers, as long as they remain unemployed. We analyze the changes in search behavior around benefits exhaustion, and take two steps to isolate the individual response to unemployment benefits. First, our longitudinal data allows us to correct for changes in sample composition over the spell. Second, we exploit data on workers eligible for 12–24 months of UI as well as workers ineligible for UI, to control for behavior changes over the unemployment spell that are independent of UI. Our results confirm the predictions of search models. We find that search effort (the number of job applications) increases by at least 50% during the year preceding benefits exhaustion and remains high thereafter. The target monthly wage decreases by at least 2.4% during the year preceding benefits exhaustion, and remains low thereafter. Additionally, we provide evidence for duration dependence: workers decrease the wage they target by 1.5% over each year of unemployment, irrespective of their UI status.

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