Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189134 
Year of Publication: 
1991
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 810
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
This paper develops theories of multi-sector search by unemployed workers. The paper then attempts to distinguish empirically whether unemployed workers target their job search efforts exclusively on a particular sector at any point in time, or whether they search in a 'non-targeted' fashion across all sectors. We look at two types of sectoral movements -- between occupation and between industry. We employ both a standard probit formulation and a 'competing -risk' formulation (to estimate the semiparametric hazard into the pre-unemployment sector and an alternative sector). The common implications of both models are supported by the results, which provide strong support for multi-sector search formulations over single-sector formulations. However, we are unable to distinguish empirically between the alternative models of multi-sector search.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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