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  1. The intended and unintended effects of promoting labor market mobility
    Published: January 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Subsidizing the geographical mobility of unemployed workers may improve welfare by relaxing their financial constraints and allowing them to find jobs in more prosperous regions. We exploit regional variation in the promotion of mobility programs... more

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    Subsidizing the geographical mobility of unemployed workers may improve welfare by relaxing their financial constraints and allowing them to find jobs in more prosperous regions. We exploit regional variation in the promotion of mobility programs along administrative borders of German employment agency districts to investigate the causal effect of offering such financial incentives on the job search behavior and labor market integration of unemployed workers. We show that promoting mobility - as intended - causes job seekers to increase their search radius, apply for and accept distant jobs. At the same time, local job search is reduced with adverse consequences for reemployment and earnings. These unintended negative effects are provoked by spatial search frictions. Overall, the unconditional provision of mobility programs harms the welfare of unemployed job seekers.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15011
    Subjects: job search; active labor market policy; labor market mobility; unintended consequence; search frictions
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  2. Do the long-term unemployed benefit from automated occupational advice during online job search?
    Published: July 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    In a randomized field experiment, we provide personalized suggestions about suitable alternative occupations to long-term unemployed job seekers in the UK. The suggestions are automatically generated, integrated in an online job search platform, and... more

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    In a randomized field experiment, we provide personalized suggestions about suitable alternative occupations to long-term unemployed job seekers in the UK. The suggestions are automatically generated, integrated in an online job search platform, and fed into actual search queries. Effects on the primary pre-registered outcomes of "finding a stable job" and "reaching a cumulative earnings threshold" are positive, are significant among those who searched at least once, and are more pronounced for those who are longer unemployed. Treated individuals include more occupations in their search and find more jobs in recommended occupations.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15452
    Subjects: online advice; job search; long-term unemployment; occupational mobility; field experiment
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  3. Do the long-term unemployed benefit from automated occupational advice during online job search?
    Published: 28 July 2022
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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    Series: Array ; DP17513
    Subjects: Online advice; job search; Long-term unemployment; Occupational Mobility; fieldexperiment
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  4. Perceived returns to job search
    Published: May 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    In this paper we provide the first evidence on workers' perceptions of the returns to job search effort. The perceived job finding probability is nearly linear in hours searched and only slightly concave for most respondents. While workers are... more

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    In this paper we provide the first evidence on workers' perceptions of the returns to job search effort. The perceived job finding probability is nearly linear in hours searched and only slightly concave for most respondents. While workers are over-optimistic about the probability of receiving a job offer conditional on any search, they perceive the marginal return to additional search hours as positive but comparably low. Job seekers receiving an offer update their perceived returns upwards, while others' beliefs regress towards the direction of the mean. We find little evidence that the novel aspects of the pandemic recession have fundamentally changed workers' motivations for job search: that an existing job is expected to end or has unsatisfactory pay are the primary motives for on-the-job search. On the contrary, workers' ability to do their tasks from home is not a strong predictor of job search nor a significant motive for switching occupations.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15307
    Subjects: job search; perceived returns; working from home; COVID-19,subjective beliefs; reservation wage
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  5. Beyond lost earnings
    the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior
    Published: 15 June 2022
    Publisher:  Institute for Employment Research of the Federal Employment Agency, Nürnberg, Germany

    We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo-coordinates of workers' places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and... more

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    We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo-coordinates of workers' places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and commuting time. Using German employee-employer matched data and an event study design, we identify the causal effect of job loss on workers displaced during a mass layoff. Conditional on finding a new job, workers' commuting distance and commuting time rise sharply after displacement and gradually decline in subsequent years. The recovery is due to employer changes rather than migration, and a larger increase in commuting would mitigate the wage loss due to job displacement. To rationalize our findings, we build an on-the-job search model with heterogeneous firm productivity and commuting distances. Our model predicts a joint recovery of wages and commuting despite a static tradeoff between the two attributes. Wir analysieren den langfristigen Effekt von Entlassungen auf das Pendelverhalten von Beschäftigten. Hierfür nutzen wir Geoinformationen zum Wohn- und Arbeitsort der Beschäftigten, womit wir die Pendeldistanz und Pendelzeit bestimmen können. Mithilfe der zur Verfügung stehenden Betriebsinformationen und einer Ereignisstudie können wir zudem Massenentlassungen nutzen, um kausale Effekte auf Beschäftigte zu identifizieren. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Beschäftigte, die wieder in Arbeit finden, deutlich erhöhte Pendeldistanzen und Pendelzeiten haben, welche in den Folgejahren abnehmen. Ferner zeigen unsere Ergebnisse, dass Beschäftigte, die nach einer Entlassung länger pendeln ihren Einkommensverlust reduzieren und die langfristige Erholung der Pendeldistanzen und Pendelzeit auf den Wechsel von Firmen zurückgeht und nicht durch Umzüge getrieben ist. Um unsere Ergebnisse analytisch zu diskutieren und zu begründen nutzen wir ein suchtheoretisches Modell, welches eine gemeinsame Erholung des Einkommens und Pendelns postuliert und damit eine statistische Betrachtung entscheidend erweitert.

     

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    Series: IAB-discussion paper ; 2022, 15
    Subjects: commuting; mobility; displacement; job search
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  6. I won't make the same mistake again
    burnout history and job preferences
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    The existing burnout literature has predominantly focussed on the determinants of burnout, whereas its consequences for individual careers have received little attention. In this study, we investigate whether recently burned-out individuals and... more

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    The existing burnout literature has predominantly focussed on the determinants of burnout, whereas its consequences for individual careers have received little attention. In this study, we investigate whether recently burned-out individuals and persons with a very high risk of clinical burnout differ in job preferences from non-burned-out workers. Moreover, we link these differences in preferences with (1) diverging perceptions of job demands and resources in a job, as well as (2) distinct weighting of such perceptions. To this end, a highquality sample of 582 employees varying in their history and current risk of burnout judged fictitious job offers with experimentally manipulated characteristics in terms of their willingness to apply as well as perceived job demands and resources. We find that recently burned-out employees appreciate possibilities to telework and fixed feedback relatively more, while being relatively less attracted to opportunities for learning on the job. Moreover, employees with a very high risk of burnout are more attracted to part-time jobs. These findings can be partially explained by differences in the perceived resources offered by jobs.

     

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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 1036
    Subjects: burnout; labour market; job search; job preference; factorial survey experiment
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  7. Search and reallocation in the Covid-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK
    Published: March 2022
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK labour market has been extremely heterogeneous across occupation and industrial sectors. Using novel data on job search, we document how individuals adjust their job search behaviour in response to... more

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    The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK labour market has been extremely heterogeneous across occupation and industrial sectors. Using novel data on job search, we document how individuals adjust their job search behaviour in response to changing employment patterns across occupations and industries in the UK. We observe that workers changed their search direction in favour of expanding occupations and industries as the pandemic developed. This suggests job searchers do respond to occupation-wide and industry-wide conditions in addition to idiosyncratic career concerns. However, non-employed workers and those with low education levels are more attached to their previous occupations and more likely to target declining ones. We also see workers from declining occupations making fewer transitions to expanding occupations than those who start in such occupations, despite targeting these jobs relatively frequently. This suggests those at the margins of the labour market may be least able to escape occupations that declined during the pandemic.

     

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    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 9621 (2022)
    Subjects: job search; occupation mobility; industry mobility; Covid-19 pandemic
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  8. I won't make the same mistake again
    burnout history and job preferences
    Published: January 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    The existing burnout literature has predominantly focussed on the determinants of burnout, whereas its consequences for individual careers have received little attention. In this study, we investigate whether recently burned-out individuals and... more

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    The existing burnout literature has predominantly focussed on the determinants of burnout, whereas its consequences for individual careers have received little attention. In this study, we investigate whether recently burned-out individuals and persons with a very high risk of clinical burnout differ in job preferences from non-burned-out workers. Moreover, we link these differences in preferences with (1) diverging perceptions of job demands and resources in a job, as well as (2) distinct weighting of such perceptions. To this end, a high-quality sample of 582 employees varying in their history and current risk of burnout judged fictitious job offers with experimentally manipulated characteristics in terms of their willingness to apply as well as perceived job demands and resources. We find that recently burned-out employees appreciate possibilities to telework and fixed feedback relatively more, while being relatively less attracted to opportunities for learning on the job. Moreover, employees with a very high risk of burnout are more attracted to part-time jobs. These findings can be partially explained by differences in the perceived resources offered by jobs.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15044
    Subjects: burnout; labour market; job search; job preference; factorial survey experiment
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  9. Beyond lost earnings
    the long-term impact of jobdisplacement on workers' commuting behavior
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  CLEF, Canadian Labour Economics Forum, [Waterloo, Ontario]

    We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo-coordinates of workers' places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and... more

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    We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo-coordinates of workers' places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and commuting time. Using German employee-employer matched data and an event study design, we identify the causal effect of job loss on workers displaced during a mass layoff. Conditional on finding a new job, workers' commuting distance and commuting time rise sharply after displacement and gradually decline in subsequent years. The recovery is due to employer changes rather than migration, and a larger increase in commuting would mitigate the wage loss due to job displacement. To rationalize our findings, we build an on-the-job search model with heterogeneous firm productivity and commuting distances. Our model predicts a joint recovery of wages and commuting despite a static tradeoff between the two attributes.

     

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    Series: Working paper series / CLEF, Canadian Labour Economics Forum ; WP #44
    Subjects: commuting; mobility; displacement; job search
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  10. The direct and indirect effects of online job search advice
    Published: December 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We study how online job search advice affects the job search strategies and labor market outcomes of unemployed workers. In a large-scale field experiment, we provide job seekers with vacancy information and occupational recommendations through an... more

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    We study how online job search advice affects the job search strategies and labor market outcomes of unemployed workers. In a large-scale field experiment, we provide job seekers with vacancy information and occupational recommendations through an online dashboard. A clustered randomization procedure with regionally varying treatment intensities allows us to account for treatment spillovers. Our results show that online advice is highly effective when the share of treated workers is relatively low: in regions where less than 50% of job seekers are exposed to the treatment, working hours and earnings of treated job seekers increase by 8.5-9.5% in the year after the intervention. At the same time, we find substantial negative spillovers on other treated job seekers for higher treatment intensities, resulting from increased competition between treated job seekers who apply for similar vacancies.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15830
    Subjects: unemployment; job search; job search assistance; public policy; field experiments; information frictions; occupational recommendations; online advice
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  11. Piecework and job search in the platform economy
    Published: December 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    The massive growth of jobs in the platform economy has reignited a long-standing debate on the wage elasticity of labour supply for the self-employed. Overwhelming empirical evidence seems to suggest that workers in the platform economy will work... more

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    The massive growth of jobs in the platform economy has reignited a long-standing debate on the wage elasticity of labour supply for the self-employed. Overwhelming empirical evidence seems to suggest that workers in the platform economy will work more hours than they wish to, for a lower wage, suggesting a backward-bending labour supply curve. Is this puzzling outcome explained by target earning behaviour or rather by the uncertainty arising from task search? In this paper, we test these hypotheses making use of new data on on-location and online platform workers earning on a piece-rate basis in the EU, exploiting search shocks in a difference-in-differences strategy to reassess the wage elasticity of labour supply. We find that uncertainty in search plays a central role in inflating hours of work, revealing a positive and inelastic wage elasticity for all platform workers. On average, a percentage increase in job search leads to a net loss in income, suggesting that piecework might be an endemic source of demand surplus for monopsonistic markets.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15775
    Subjects: platform economy; piecework; self-employment; job search; labour supply
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  12. The labor market consequences of impatience
    some people would be happier if they were required to stay in school longer or search harder for a job while unemployed
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), Bonn

    Standard economic theory suggests that individuals know best how to make themselves happy. Thus, policies designed to encourage more forward-looking behaviors will only reduce people's happiness. Recently, however, economists have explored the role... more

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    Standard economic theory suggests that individuals know best how to make themselves happy. Thus, policies designed to encourage more forward-looking behaviors will only reduce people's happiness. Recently, however, economists have explored the role of impatience, especially difficulties with delaying gratification, in several important economic choices. There is strong evidence that some people have trouble following through on investments that best serve their long-term interests. These findings open the door to policies encouraging or requiring more patient behaviors, which would allow people to enjoy the eventual payoff from higher initial investment.

     

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    Series: IZA world of labor ; 2022, 233v2
    Subjects: impatience; dynamic inconsistency; educational investment; job search; lifetime earnings
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  13. Do job seekers understand the UI benefit system (and does it matter)?
    Published: November 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We study how job seekers' understanding of complex unemployment benefit rules affects their labor market performance. Combining data from a large-scale scale field experiment, detailed administrative records, and a survey of unemployed job seekers,... more

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    We study how job seekers' understanding of complex unemployment benefit rules affects their labor market performance. Combining data from a large-scale scale field experiment, detailed administrative records, and a survey of unemployed job seekers, we document three main results. First, job seekers exhibit pronounced knowledge gaps about the prevailing unemployment benefit rules and their personal benefit entitlements. Second, we show that a low-cost information strategy using a personalized online tool increases job seekers' understanding of the rules and their personal benefit situation. Finally, we document heterogeneous labor-market effects of the intervention depending on job seekers' baseline knowledge and beliefs, their personal employment prospects, and the timing of the intervention during the benefit spell.

     

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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15747
    Subjects: unemployment benefits; field experiments; information frictions; labor market policy; job search
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  14. Job search requirements for older unemployed workers
    search requirements for the older unemployed affect their re-employment rates and their flows into states of inactivity
    Published: November 2022
    Publisher:  Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), Bonn

    Many OECD countries have, or have had, a policy that exempts older unemployed people from the requirement to search for a job. An aging population and low participation by older workers in the labor market increasingly put public finances under... more

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    Many OECD countries have, or have had, a policy that exempts older unemployed people from the requirement to search for a job. An aging population and low participation by older workers in the labor market increasingly put public finances under strain, and spur calls for policy measures that activate labor force participation by older workers. Introducing job search requirements for older unemployed workers aims to increase their re-employment rates. Abolishing the exemption from job search requirements for the older unemployed has been shown to initiate higher outflow rates from unemployment for them.

     

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    Series: IZA world of labor ; 2022, 235.v2
    Subjects: search effort; job search; policy evaluation; older workers; job applications
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