Analysis of 1979-81 data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (2,165 subjects) confirms the hypothesis that workers who quit and become unemployed experience larger wage gains when reemployed than those who move directly to another job. Unemployed movers apparently receive wage gains to compensate for higher job search and mobility…

A sequential-regimes job search model tested the effect of advanced notice on the duration of joblessness. Maximum likelihood estimates using data from the 1984 and 1986 Dislocated Worker Surveys demonstrated that advance knowledge significantly shortened joblessness for most labor force groups. (SK)

Conducted descriptive study to investigate factors that help and hinder members of job-search groups and the impact of these groups on the experience of unemployment. Persons who had taken part in job-search groups reported 501 helping and 44 hindering incidents. Analyses resulted in the grouping of incidents into 19 helping and 10 hindering…

Job searches by both the unemployed and employed jobseekers are studied through an empirical structural job search model using a choice variable of search intensity. The resulting influence of search intensity on the labor market transitions is analyzed to give the estimation results of the search and the impact of the benefit level on the search…

Outlines a three-phase process for making a career change: personal self-assessment and identification of goals, career research, and active searching for employment. Lists several publications which address the subject of career change. (KC)

Interviews with 325 British union members who had become unemployed and with 30 union officials found some attempt by unions to organize the unemployed and provide assistance. However, policies and services such as job information, retraining, and legal aid are not well communicated to the people who need them. (SK)

Reduced form equations performed on data from the Employment Opportunities Pilot Projects found that many employed and unemployed job seekers reject at least one offer before accepting a job. Most accept an offer with a wage below the estimated reservation wage. (SK)

Investigated intrinsic and extrinsic new job characteristics for 516 involuntarily dismissed white-collar workers. Results suggest employment counselors can ease transition into satisfying new jobs by helping clients deal with negative emotional trauma of job loss, encouraging active coping strategies, fostering realistic job expectations, and…

Research findings are presented as potentially important program issues, and descriptions of how these issues were transformed into modules for a career-shift/job-search program are given. Preliminary data from the evaluation of this career-shift/job-search program are shown and the resemblances between this experimental, research-based program…

Compares self-reported job search contacts of unemployment insurance recipients with independently verified job-search contacts. The separate equations estimated for reported and actual job contacts suggest that systematic misreporting may distort the conclusions. Some implications of the findings for reported unemployment rates also are explored.…

Too often career counselors hear of, or work with, unemployed or underemployed foreign trained immigrant professionals. With the globalization of economy and shortages in skilled labor in Canada, the number of immigrant professionals is on the rise. It is becoming clear that services and programs are necessary to assist such individuals to ensure…

Discusses the difference between those who have been laid off and those who have been permanantly separated from their jobs. Presents demographic, occupational, and industry profiles of both groups and examines the variability in numbers of workers in each group and their job search and job change behavior. (JOW)

In a study of 225 Israeli young adults applying for their first job, women were more likely to reject jobs due to work conditions, family considerations, or masculine sex-typing. Men rejected jobs only because of feminine sex-typing. Women had greater nonfinancial commitment to work. Men were more stigmatized by unemployment. There were no…

Finnish job seekers (n=559) were followed up after 1 year (n=401) after 84.3% participated in guidance courses, subsidized employment, vocational training, or some combination. Guidance courses enhanced reemployment. None of the interventions increased job-seeking activity. Training temporarily decreased psychological distress. Deteriorating…

The purpose of unemployment insurance (UI) is to provide labor force members with partial wage replacements when they are unemployed even as this income maintenance measure prolongs the unemployment period. This UI benefit also forces the beneficiaries to make more active job searches. Reemployment bonuses were aimed to speed return to work,…