This paper investigates whether job offers arrive more frequently for those in employment
than for those in unemployment. To this end, we take advantage of a unique Australian data
set which contains information on both accepted and rejected job offers. Our estimation
strategy takes account of the selectivity associated with the initial employment state and we
allow for individual heterogeneity in the probability of obtaining jobs. Our results reveal that,
across the wage range, individuals are about equally likely to obtain a job offer in
employment as in unemployment. This implies that encouraging unemployed (rather than
employed) search through the provision of unemployment benefits does not improve the
speed of a job match.
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