Fishing in Different Pools: Job-Search Strategies and Job-Finding Success in Canada in the Early 1980s
利用加拿大劳动力调查1981、1983和1986年的纵向数据，分析失业者求职方法随商业周期的变化，发现求职策略选择存在样本选择性，且公共就业机构在经济衰退低谷期有显著社会回报。
This article examines the job-search methods of jobless workers and emphasizes sample selectivity in choice of job-search strategies (especially use of public employment agencies). Longitudinal data from the Labour Force Survey of Canada for 1981, 1983, and 1986 indicate that job-search methods change with the business cycle and that many people find jobs without any reported search. The determinants of job-search success also vary substantially over the business cycle, implying a substantial social return to public employment agencies at the 1983 trough of the recession but no noticeable benefits when aggregate unemployment is relatively low. Copyright 1993 by University of Chicago Press.