Replication data for: Job Search Behavior over the Business Cycle
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Toshihiko Mukoyama; Christina Patterson; Ayşegül Şahin
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Project Citation:
Mukoyama, Toshihiko, Patterson, Christina, and Sahin, Aysegül. Replication data for: Job Search Behavior over the Business Cycle. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-05-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/E231506V1
Project Description
Summary:
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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.
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JEL Classification:
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E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
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