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

Version:  View help for Version V1

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Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary 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.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      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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