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Evidence in Labor Market Policies and Implications for Brazil: Job Search Assistance
Policy evidence synthesis · JOI Brazil / Inter-American Development Bank
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Action-Plan Prompts for Behavioral Search Barriers
"The authors then showed that encouraging recipients to create a detailed action plan about their job search process reduced the gap between the intention to apply for job vacancies and the actual number of applications, expanded the range of search channels used by applicants, and led to higher employment levels."
Algorithmic Intermediation and Bias Mitigation
"In an extension, the same authors showed that using a different algorithm increased demographic diversity while keeping hiring rates high."
Anonymized Selection Mechanisms and Bias Reduction
"Selection processes that created mechanisms to make it impossible for the hiring firms to know some characteristics of the candidates have increased hiring of underrepresented groups in some cases"
Online Employment Platform Navigation and Communication Offset
"Furthermore, an evaluation in South Africa showed that supplementing labor market preparation programs with training about online employment platforms increased the likelihood of participants being employed, mainly because using these tools allowed them to acquire more information about potential employers"
Job Search Requirements and Benefit Monitoring
"For example, an evaluation in the United States showed that conditioning the receipt of unemployment insurance to job search requirements induced a more intensive job search and reduced the length of unemployment insurance receipt (Klepinger et al., 2002)."
Labor Market Information Provision and Job Fairs
"Research in Ethiopia revealed that job fairs provided a means to bridge information gaps in the labor market, resulting in enhanced job search and improved employment outcomes for job seekers who had strong misconceptions about their employment prospects."
Internal Locus of Control and Psychological Goal-Setting
"In addition, an evaluation in Germany showed that teaching innovative behavioral strategies to increase the chance of goal achievement helped increase job applications."
Mobile SMS Vacancy Dissemination
"Integrating SMS communication into this PES resulted in modest positive impacts on participants' short-term (2-month) employment, while participation in the traditional non-digital intermediation did not result in any detectable effects."
Service Provider Incentive Alignment in Job Counseling
"In France, an evaluation of a counseling program for those at risk of long-term unemployment showed that it was less effective in increasing participants' employability when offered by the private sector. The researchers suggest that the private providers were less effective because the payment structure encouraged them to maximize the number of participants rather than focusing on allocating participants to the most suitable jobs"
Public Employment Referral Quality and Systemic Friction
"Comparing the groups before and after the referral, the authors found that receiving a referral increased the chances of getting a job. However, they also observed a decrease in the salary of those who received a referral in comparison to their previous job."
Skill Signaling via Reference Letters and Certificates
"In South Africa, reference letters increased employment for women, while they had no effect on men. According to the authors, the results suggest that employers were less confident in the skills reported by women, and the reference letters helped correct this bias."
Spatial Search Frictions and Transport Subsidies
"In Ethiopia, one evaluation showed that transport subsidies helped youth find better quality work but did not increase overall employment (Franklin, 2018); the study also found that the program reduced worker discouragement."
Programme details
Abel, Burger, Carranza and Piraino (2018), Bridging the Intention–Behavior Gap?
Read the source ↗2018 working paper, printed pages 1–3 and 7–8: planning chart, weekly totals, take-home plan and additional treatments. The IDB review’s citation has the same title and four authors; the 2018 working paper and 2019 journal article remain distinct versions.
IDB review — source details
Source detailsThe public School link supplies source details, not an assertion that the working-paper version is identical.
Source versions
These instructions draw on the authors’ 2018 working paper. The IDB review cites their later 2019 journal article.
School’s suggested learning loop
PDSA means Plan–Do–Study–Act. Here the stages use plain labels: Plan, Try, Learn and Adjust.
School proposes the PDSA loop as a delivery-learning aid; it is not the tested protocol described in the cited source. Before trying a change, agree what to test, the team's prediction and what to record. Afterwards, keep, change or stop the test; repeat only when useful. A small delivery test does not establish cause and effect.
Method card limits
The source does not establish that School's added check-in and revision loop improves employment. Do not promise a job or treat missed applications as a personal failure.