Tag
job_search
6 findings
Labour & employmentAdvance Notification Anticipation EffectNon-notified job seekers (Group C) experienced a sharper, more abrupt increase in the exit rate to work around day 90 compared to advance-notified job seekers (Group B), confirming theoretical predictions of anticipatory behavioral smoothing; however, advance notification yielded no statistically significant difference in unconditional 365-day re-employment probabilities (68.3% for Group B vs 69.7% for Group C).RCTEconomics (general)Psychological Costs of Application InitiationProactive phone call initiation increased the job application rate by 600% (from 0.185% to 1.507% of matches, effect = 0.01322, p < 0.001) and increased the interview invitation rate by 550% (from 0.012% to 0.090% of matches, effect = 0.00078, p < 0.001).RCTLabour & employmentReservation Wage Inelasticity to ExperienceShort-term work experience produced a statistically non-significant effect on monthly reservation wages (IV estimate = +$124.40, p > 0.10) and no significant increase in active job search duration (IV estimate = +0.089, p > 0.10), ruling out reservation wage shifts as the mechanism driving daily wage returns.RCTLabour & employmentSearch Channel Substitution Under MonitoringIncreased monitoring yielded no significant overall increase in transition rates to employment, but induced a direct shift from informal to formal job search methods.RCTLabour & employmentSelf-Belief Updating and Directed Job SearchYoung job seekers in Johannesburg updated their beliefs about their abilities, redirected search efforts toward aligned sectors, and cumulatively earned 1.8 times more than program operating costs within 3.5 months.RCTLabour & employmentStress Reduction via Probabilistic Fallback JobsTraining test performance strongly predicted hiring by the primary recruiter (R² = 0.357, where a 1 standard deviation increase in composite test score increased hiring probability by 9.7 percentage points). Receiving a higher guaranteed probabilistic outside job offer significantly increased candidate test performance during training by alleviating job-uncertainty stress.RCT