Unemployment Insurance and Job Search Decisions

ILR Review ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale T. Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Job Search

How do Unemployment Insurance and Recall Expectations Affect on-the-job Search among Workers Who Receive Advance Notice of Layoff?

ILR Review ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul L. Burgess ◽  
Stuart A. Low
Keyword(s):  
Random Sample ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Experience Rating ◽  
Advance Notice ◽  
Unemployment Spells

This paper explores how advance notice of layoffs, recall (rehiring) expectations, and unemployment insurance (UI) benefits affected on-the-job search among a random sample of Arizona UI recipients in 1975–76. The analysis, which includes extensive controls for the characteristics of workers and their jobs, indicates that pre-unemployment search increased with length of notice and decreased with expected recall. Also, among workers not expecting recall, pre-unemployment search decreased with the level of UI benefits available after layoff. The authors argue that improved experience rating would encourage firms to give employees advance notice when layoffs are imminent, and re-employment bonuses for workers with zero or short unemployment spells would encourage early search.

scholarly journals Unemployment Insurance, Job Search and Informal Employment

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Margolis ◽  
Lucas Navarro ◽  
David A. Robalino
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Informal Employment
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