Competition between Employed and Unemployed Job Applicants: Swedish Evidence*
利用瑞典求职数据库，研究发现失业求职者被企业联系的概率低于条件相同的在职求职者，支持企业将就业状态视为生产力信号的观点。
Abstract We use the Swedish Applicant Database to investigate empirically whether being unemployed per se reduces the probability of getting contacted by a firm. All searchers looking for a new job are invited to submit their personal details to this database over the internet. Since we have access to exactly the same information as the firms, we can minimize the problems associated with unobserved heterogeneity. Our results show that an unemployed applicant faces a lower contact probability than an otherwise identical employed applicant, thus supporting the notion that firms view employment status as a signal of productivity.