The hard truth is that there doesn't seem to be any hard data about the relative difficulty of landing a job for the employed and the unemployed. Admittedly, I haven't gone all out to find it, but I would expect that if there really were something substantive, it wouldn't be that hard to find. And of course, this period of steep unemployment is a particular case and wouldn't necessarily apply in a situation where unemployment was half or less what it is now, with fewer long-term unemployed.
But if there was ever a time to study it, you'd think now would be that time, wouldn't you?
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
> This study doesn't seem to control for the amount of time and
> degree of effort that unemployed versus employed job seekers
> put into job searching. Generally, the unemployed would seem
> to have morespare time to devote to job searching. Unless,
> this crucial variable is controlled for, I don't see how one
> can make a meaninguly comparison between the fruits of
> job search efforts by the employed versus those of the
> unemployed.
>
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