On-the-Job Search and the Beveridge Curve

February 1, 2002

Preview Citation

Format: Chicago

Andrés Fuentes. On-the-Job Search and the Beveridge Curve, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 21, 2024

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate

Summary

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of the role on-the-job search plays in explaining shifts of the unemployment-vacancies relationship (the Beveridge curve). We show that the direction of the shift depends on the parameters of the matching model, regardless of the assumptions made on the relative search effectiveness of employed and unemployed searchers. We estimate a Beveridge Curve equation with a panel of British regions controlling for unobserved aggregate unemployment effects. We find evidence that the rise in on-the-job search in the 1980s has shifted the Beveridge Curve outwards.

Subject: Employment, Labor, Labor force, Labor markets, Unemployment, Unemployment rate

Keywords: Employment, Job search, Job searcher, Job turnover, Labor force, Labor markets, Labour Force Survey unemployment count, Matching models, Replacement ratio, Steady state unemployment-vacancies relationship, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, Unemployment vacancies relationship, Vacancies, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

19
Volume:

---
DOI:

---
Issue:

---
Series:

Working Paper No. 2002/037
Stock No:

WPIEA0372002
ISBN:

9781451845587
ISSN:

1018-5941

FACTSHEETS

RESOURCES

TOPICS

Flagship Publications

Other Publications

IMF reports and publications by country

Regional Offices

All News

See Also

For Journalists

Press Center

RESOURCES

FLAGSHIPS

KEY SERIES

IMF NOTES

IMF Working Papers