Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/65993
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2010-32
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
We use the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to analyse whether employed and unemployed job seekers are substitutes by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly collect information on job search activities of employed workers, we combine it with the British Labour Force Survey to assign a probability that employed respondents in the BHPS engage in on-the-job search. Even after controlling for individual heterogeneity we find important differences between employed and unemployed job seekers, both in their qualification levels and past employment histories.
Subjects: 
unemployment
on-the-job search
employment histories
JEL: 
J29
J60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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