A Theory of Employee Job Search and Quit Rates

By K. Burdett. 2016

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Searching for Job Security and the Consequences of Job Loss (2021, methodology): “Hornstein et al. (2011) set λ0 = .43 and λ1 ∈ [.07, .13] to be consistent with US labor market flows in the context of a Burdett (1978) job-ladder model. for all α ∈ [0, 1), we have that the social surplus is strictly smaller than the bilateral surplus, SP (θ) < S(θ) ∀θ s.t. SP (θ) > 0 (18) Thus,…”
Job Search Behavior Among the Employed and Non-Employed (2017, unknown): “Despite a lack of supporting data, the literature on labor search theory has recognized the importance of on-the-job search as far back as early work by Parsons (1973) and Burdett (1978).”
Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality? (2017, background): “An earlier mention of this idea is contained in Burgess and Kingston (1976), Classen (1977), Ehrenberg and Oaxaca (1976) and Holen (1977). 3The intuition of two offsetting forces has been present in discussions of the effect of UI on job quality (For instance, see Addison and Blackburn (2000), Degen”