ADVANCE NOTICE AND JOB SEARCH - MORE ON THE VALUE OF AN EARLY START

This paper investigates the effects of advance notice of impending job loss on the length of jobless spells of displaced workers. We evaluat e the performance of a formal search model and offer a generalization of the model that provides an alternative but related approach to the most recent empirically based literature. Evidence of gains from early search are found for all broad gender-occupation groups except blue-c ollar males.