• Title of article

    Can skill decay increase search effort?

  • Author/Authors

    Olivier Charlot، نويسنده , , Bruno Decreuse، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2001
  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    359
  • To page
    362
  • Abstract
    We consider the search behaviour of a worker whose expected matching gains are assumed to be decreasing over the spell of unemployment. The search effort is linked positively to future earnings and negatively to the reservation wage. This may give rise to non-monotonous hazard rates
  • Keywords
    Job search , Long-term unemployment , Nonstationarity , Skill decay
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2001
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    434795