Estimating On-the-job Search as an Intensive Margin
1 : Sciences Po Paris - Institut d'études politiques de Paris
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2 : Aix-Marseille School of Economics
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Ecole Centrale Marseille (ECM), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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France
Job-to-job transition is a major source of wage growth over a lifetime. This
paper individually estimates how job search efforts respond to expected gains
from mobility, accounting from observed characteristics. Both gains and efforts
are unobserved, calling for a structural approach. I build a random search model
with endogenous search effort and individual heterogeneity. Workers have forward-
looking expectations on job opportunities and household characteristics. The opti-
mal search effort function is jointly estimated with the distribution of job offers from
panel data. Results show that individuals search slightly less when their expected
gain from searching is lower.
| Subject : | : | oral |
| Topics | : | B8 - Search & matching |
| Keywords | : | both |
| PDF version | : |  PDF version |
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