Home-ownership, unemployed's job search behavior and post-unemployment outcomes

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Marco Caliendo
Anne C. Gielen
Mahlstedt, Robert

Using detailed German survey data, we show that home-owners freshly entering unemployment are less geographically mobile than their renting counterparts. However, they do not compensate their restricted mobility by more intensive or different search behavior and do not face negative effects on labor market outcomes one year later.

Original language	English
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	137
Pages (from-to)	218-221
ISSN	0165-1765
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.11.010
Publication status	Published - Dec 2015
Externally published	Yes

Research areas

Job search behavior, Home-ownership, Search effort, Reservation wage, Unemployment duration

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