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- Title
Job Search, Emotional Well-Being, and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data.
- Authors
KRUEGER, ALAN B.; MUELLER, ANDREAS
- Abstract
This paper presents findings from a survey of 6,025 unemployed workers who were interviewed every week for up to 24 weeks in the fall of 2009 and winter of 2010. We find that the amount of time devoted to job search declines sharply over the spell of unemployment; we do not observe a rise in job search or job finding around the time that extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits expire. The workers in our survey express much dissatisfaction and unhappiness with their lives, and their unhappiness rises the longer they are unemployed. The unemployed appear to be particularly sad during episodes of job search, and they report feeling more sad during job search the longer they are unemployed. We also find that in the aftermath of the Great Recession the exit rate from unemployment was low at all durations and declined gradually over the spell of unemployment. Both the amount of time devoted to job search and the reservation wage help predict early exit from UI.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNEMPLOYED people; UNEMPLOYMENT insurance; UNEMPLOYMENT; JOB hunting; SUPPLEMENTAL unemployment benefits; INCOME maintenance programs; GOVERNMENT insurance
- Publication
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011, p1
- ISSN
0007-2303
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/eca.2011.0001