Morning Must-Read: Nick Bunker: How Much Does Job Search Matter for Job Switching?

…Carlos Carrillo-Tudella… Bart Hobijn and Patryk Perkowski… and Ludo Visschers… look at the Contingent Worker Supplement to the CPS…. More than 67 percent of workers who were hired didn’t look for a job in the previous three months. So less than one-third of total hires were workers who were actively searching…. About 26 percent of overall hires were of employed workers who weren’t searching for a job. Another 42 percent of new hires were workers without jobs who weren’t looking for a job…. These results don’t mean that searching for a job is futile…. Looking for a job is incredibly important for individual workers…. [But] employers are the ones [mostly] conducting a search…