Updating about Yourself by Learning about the Market: The Dynamics of Beliefs and Expectations in Job Search (Under Revision, New Version Coming Soon)

We find that job seekers perceive a decrease of 18% in their subjective job-finding probability for each additional month of unemployment. However, job seekers perceive a higher job-finding probability when the aggregate unemployment rate is lower than they expected.

July 2023 ·  Qiwei He , Philipp Kircher