Job Search Methods and Outcomes

By John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal. Social Science Research Network, 2002

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In this paper we investigate the process of job search, using a unique, large-scale data set for Portugal that allows us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new departure, the impact of job-finding methods used by the unemployed on earnings. In each case, the characteristics of workers receive careful attention. In addition, the effectiveness of the job search process is evaluated in terms of the periodicity of the resulting job match. Some emphasis is accorded the role of the public employment agency which, despite its frequency as a search vehicle, is found to have a low hit rate and to lead to low-paying jobs. Such jobs are also shorter lasting, only partly because they are more likely to be of a fixed-term nature. The policy backdrop is provided by the "employment chapter" of the Treaty of Amsterdam. Given our results, some concern naturally arises as to the capacity of the public employment agency to meet the targets set under European employment initiatives.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Referral-Based Job Search Networks (2016, unknown): “We report our main results based on equation (4) in Table 4.”
• Education and skills mismatch in the Italian graduate labour market (2006, methodology): “The assumption that the distribution of the error tem is lognormal has been 9 widely adopted in estimating equations using censored wage data (see, for instance, Addison and Portugal, 2002).”
• Job contact networks and the ethnic minorities (2010, methodology): “which, using (1), is positive in the “white” neighborhood PW , and, using (2), is negative in the “nonwhite” neighborhood PB.”
• Job search methods and their success : a comparison of immigrants and natives in the UK (2005, unknown): “Most of the literature that has looked at job search behaviour in the general population has paid little attention to issues of immigrant status; see, for example, Holzer (1988) for the US; Osberg (1993) for Canada; Gregg and Wadsworth (1996) for Britain and more recently, Boheim and Taylor (2001) f”
• Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes (2008, unknown): “Ei = θg + δ 0 1Xi + δ 0 2X i + δ 0 3Qi + ui, (2)”
• Density, Social Networks and Job Search Methods: Theory and Application to Egypt (2005, background): “k=0  s− 1 k  1 k + 1 (1− u)s−k−1 u (1)”
• Choice and success of job search methods (2008, unknown): “(9)Inconsistencies in the reports on search methods used and successful search channels are a common finding in various surveys (Addison and Portugal, 2002).”
• The individual experience of unemployment. (2012, background): “Research has linked the use of public employment offices to lower earnings and shorter tenure in the new job (Addison & Portugal 2002, Weber & Mahringer 2008).”
• Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations (2002, background): “For example, Holzer (1987, 1988), Bortnick and Ports (1992), Osberg (1993) and Addison and Portugal (2001) compare the job-finding rates of unemployed workers using a variety of search methods.”
• Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective? (2014, unknown): “© 2013 Royal Economic Society. using Portuguese data, Addison and Portugal (2002) found that public employment agencies are less effective at securing long-lasting and higher paid jobs.”