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242 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17761
Feedback, Confidence and Job Search Behavior
Tsegay Tekleselassie, Marc J. Witte, Jonas Radbruch, Lukas Hensel, Ingo E. Isphording
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17731
Closing the Mismatch: Encouraging Jobseekers to Reskill for Shortage Occupations
Elisabeth Leduc, Ilan Tojerow
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17713
Helping Jobseekers with Recommendations Based on Skill Profiles or Past Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention
Mirjam Bächli, Rafael Lalive, Michele Pellizzari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17612
Do Early Active Labor Market Policies Improve Outcomes of Not-Yet-Unemployed Workers? Findings from a Randomized Field Experiment
Gerard J. van den Berg, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17520
Why Don't Jobseekers Search More? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform
Kate Vyborny, Robert Garlick, Nivedhitha Subramanian, Erica Field
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17496
The Labor Market Costs of Job Displacement by Migrant Status
Maria Balgova, Hannah Illing
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17385
Job Search, Efficiency Wages and Taxes
Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17347
Feeling Observed? A Field Experiment on the Effects of Intense Survey Participation on Job Seekers' Labour Market Outcomes
Gesine Stephan, Clemens Hetschko, Julia Schmidtke, Michael Eid, Mario Lawes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17344
Polluted Job Search: The Impact of Poor Air Quality on Reservation Wages
Mariët Bogaard, Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios, Nico Pestel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17198
The Accuracy of Job Seekers' Wage Expectations
Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Aiko Schmeißer, Sophie Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17174
Identification of Ex Ante Returns Using Elicited Choice Probabilities: An Application to Preferences for Public-Sector Jobs
Romuald Meango, Esther Mirjam Girsberger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17132
The Impact of a Rising Wage Floor on Labour Mobility across Firms
John Forth, Carl Singleton, Alex Bryson, Van Phan, Felix Ritchie, Damian Whittard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17052
Sorting through Cheap Talk: Theory and Evidence from a Labor Market
John J. Horton, Ramesh Johari, Philipp Kircher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17048
Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-for Jobs
Jonas Fluchtmann, Anita Marie Glenny, Nikolaj Harmon, Jonas Maibom
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1175–1217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16960
Loud or Quiet Quitting? The Influence of Work Orientations on Effort and Turnover
Milena Nikolova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16923
Do Caseworker Meetings Prevent Unemployment? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Pia Homrighausen, Michael Oberfichtner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16923
Do Caseworker Meetings Prevent Unemployment? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Pia Homrighausen, Michael Oberfichtner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16890
There and Back Again: Women's Marginal Commuting Costs
Annette Bergemann, Stephan Brunow, Isabel Stockton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16890
There and Back Again: Women's Marginal Commuting Costs
Annette Bergemann, Stephan Brunow, Isabel Stockton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16696
Which Occupations Do Unemployed Workers Target? Insights from Online Job Search Profiles
Steffen Altmann, Robert Mahlstedt, Malte Jacob Rattenborg, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16686
Gender-Specific Application Behavior, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap
Benjamin Lochner, Christian Merkl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16669
Motherhood and the Cost of Job Search
Arnaud Philippe, Daphné Skandalis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16663
Non-Wage Job Values and Implications for Inequality
Tobias Lehmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16647
Employment Protection, Job Insecurity, and Job Mobility
Marco Bertoni, Simone Chinetti, Roberto Nistico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16602
Duration Dependence in Finding a Job: Applications, Interviews, and Job Offers
Jeremy Zuchuat, Rafael Lalive, Aderonke Osikominu, Lorenzo Pesaresi, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16583
Matching through Search Channels
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Leo Kaas, Benjamin Lochner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16537
Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries
Eliana Carranza, David McKenzie
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024, 38 (1), 221–244
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16360
We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson
Pawel Adrjan, Svenja Gudell, Emily Nix, Allison Shrivastava, Jason Sockin, Evan Starr
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16349
Job Displacement and Migrant Labor Market Assimilation
Maria Balgova, Hannah Illing
updated version available as DP 17496
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15971
Wage-Specific Search Intensity
Silvio Rendon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15830
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice
Steffen Altmann, Anita Marie Glenny, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15830
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice
Steffen Altmann, Anita Marie Glenny, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15810
Equilibrium Effects of Payroll Tax Reductions and Optimal Policy Design
Thomas Breda, Luke Haywood, Haomin Wang
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102646
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15775
Piecework and Job Search in the Platform Economy
Michele Cantarella, Chiara Strozzi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15747
Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (And Does It Matter)?
Steffen Altmann, Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt, Alexander Sebald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15698
Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers
Bas van der Klaauw, Heike Vethaak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15452
Do the Long-Term Unemployed Benefit from Automated Occupational Advice during Online Job Search?
Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15307
Perceived Returns to Job Search
Abi Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Christopher Rauh
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102307
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15044
I Won't Make the Same Mistake Again: Burnout History and Job Preferences
Philippe Sterkens, Stijn Baert, Eline Moens, Eva Derous, Joey Wuyts
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15011
The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14906
The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?
Jonas Fluchtmann, Anita Marie Glenny, Nikolaj Harmon, Jonas Maibom
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (2), 182–219
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14869
Equilibrium Job Turnover and the Business Cycle
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Alex Clymo, Melvyn Coles
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14866
The Welfare Effects of Mandatory Reemployment Programs: Combining a Structural Model and Experimental Data
Jonas Maibom
published in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (2), 607 - 640
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14865
Equilibrium Worker-Firm Allocations and the Deadweight Losses of Taxation
Jesper Bagger, Espen R. Moen, Rune Majlund Vejlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14673
Labor Market Transitions of Members of Opposite-Sex Couples: Nonparticipation, Unemployed Search, and Employment
Hans Bloemen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14638
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being of Workers: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data
Julia Schmidtke, Clemens Hetschko, Ronnie Schöb, Gesine Stephan, Michael Eid, Mario Lawes
revised version published as 'Does Worker Well-Being Adapt to a Pandemic? An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (3), 840 - 861
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14618
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?
Peter J. Kuhn, Kailing Shen
published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (4), 1013 - 1048
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14615
Coworker Networks and the Role of Occupations in Job Finding
Attila Gyetvai, Maria Zhu
forthcoming in: Labour Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14593
Mothers' Job Search after Childbirth
Lukáš Lafférs, Bernhard Schmidpeter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14582
Search and Reallocation in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the UK
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Camila Comunello, Alex Clymo, Annette Jäckle, Ludo Visschers, David Zentler-Munro
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81, 102328
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14529
Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills
Eliana Carranza, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin, Neil Rankin
published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (11), 3547 - 3583
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14373
Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors
Patricia Cortes, Jessica Pan, Laura Pilossoph, Basit Zafar
published as 'Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from the Field and Lab' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (4), 2069–2126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14180
Job Search during a Pandemic Recession: Survey Evidence from the Netherlands
Maria Balgova, Simon Trenkle, Christian Zimpelmann, Nico Pestel
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14091
Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation & Application to Job Search
Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller
forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14038
Unemployment Duration and the Take-up of Unemployment Insurance
Sylvie Blasco, Francois Fontaine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14026
Mandatory Integration Agreements for Unemployed Job Seekers: A Randomized Controlled Field Experiment in Germany
Gerard J. van den Berg, Barbara Hofmann, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
published online in: International Economic Review, 15 November 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14024
Job Placement via Private vs. Public Employment Agencies: Investigating Selection Effects and Job Match Quality in Germany
Adam Ayaita, Christian Grund, Lisa Pütz
published in: Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, 2022, 74 (2), 137-162
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13986
The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply in a Labor Market with Extensive Informality
Semih Tumen, Belgi Turan
published in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 65 (4), 1855-1894
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13857
Searching with Friends
A. Stefano Caria, Simon Franklin, Marc J. Witte
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 887–922
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13793
Search Costs and the Determinants of Job Search
Emily A. Beam
published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101968
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13684
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Welfare Receipt
Nicolas Herault, Ha Vu, Roger Wilkins
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 635 - 657
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13656
Video Resumes and Job Search Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Charles Bellemare, Marion Goussé, Guy Lacroix, Steeve Marchand
published as 'Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Video Résumé Field Experiment' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (4), 452-476
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13624
Employee Identification and Wages: On the Economics of 'Affective Commitment'
Patrick Kampkötter, Lea Petters, Dirk Sliwka
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 608-626
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13518
A Structural Analysis of Mental Health and Labor Market Trajectories
Grégory Jolivet, Fabien Postel-Vinay
published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 25 June 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13478
Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia
Alex Armand, Pedro Carneiro, Federico Tagliati, Yiming Xia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13423
Wealth, Portfolios, and Unemployment Duration
Francois Fontaine, Janne Nyborg Jensen, Rune Majlund Vejlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13189
Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany
Stefano DellaVigna, Jörg Heining, Johannes F. Schmieder, Simon Trenkle
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, 137 (2), 1181 - 1232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13170
Improving Job Search Skills: A Field Experiment on Online Employment Assistance
Guglielmo Briscese, Giulio Zanella, Veronica Quinn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12895
How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching
Manudeep Bhuller, Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, Trond Christian Vigtel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12835
Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker
Gerard J. van den Berg, Iris Kesternich, Gerrit Müller, Bettina M. Siflinger
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106706
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12601
Delayed Graduation and University Dropout: A Review of Theoretical Approaches
Carmen Aina, Eliana Baici, Giorgia Casalone, Francesco Pastore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12424
Complementarities between Labour Market Institutions and Their Causal Impact on Youth Labour Market Outcomes
Niall O'Higgins, Giovanni Pica
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2020, 20 (3), 20180165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12323
Social Connections and the Sorting of Workers to Firms
Marcus Eliason, Lena Hensvik, Francis Kramarz, Oskar Nordström Skans
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 468 - 506
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12304
The Unexpected Consequences of Job Search Monitoring: Disability Instead of Employment?
Octave De Brouwer, Elisabeth Leduc, Ilan Tojerow
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 224, 104929
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12294
Search and Multiple Jobholding
Etienne Lalé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12140
A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers
Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, June 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12139
Labor Market Frictions and Moving Costs of the Employed and Unemployed
Tyler Ransom
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S), S137-S166
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11927
Socially Useless Jobs
Robert Dur, Max van Lent
published in: Industrial Relations, 2019, 58 (1), 3-16
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11814
How Wage Announcements Affect Job Search: A Field Experiment
Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, Paul Muller
published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2022, 14 (4), 1–67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11767
A Job Ladder Model with Stochastic Employment Opportunities
Jake Bradley, Axel Gottfries
published in: Quantitative Economics 2021, 12 (4), 1399-1430
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11766
Does Job Search Assistance Really Raise Employment?
Lionel Cottier, Yves Flückiger, Pierre Kempeneers, Rafael Lalive
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11765
Job Search Requirements, Effort Provision and Labor Market Outcomes
Patrick Arni, Amelie Schiprowski
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 169, 65-88
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11764
Does the Internet Increase the Job Finding Rate? Evidence from a Period of Internet Expansion
Manuel Denzer, Thorsten Schank, Richard Upward
published in: Information Economics and Policy, 2020, 100900.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11555
Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany
Nicole Gürtzgen, André Nolte, Laura Pohlan, Gerard J. van den Berg
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103657
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11288
Do Preferences and Biases Predict Life Outcomes? Evidence from Education and Labor Market Entry Decisions
Uschi Backes-Gellner, Holger Herz, Michael Kosfeld, Yvonne Oswald
published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103709
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11169
Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 15011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11014
Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries
Shaimaa Yassin, François Langot
publisehd in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (1), 326-348
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10960
Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed
Jason Faberman, Andreas I. Mueller, Aysegül Sahin, Giorgio Topa
published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (4),1743-1779
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10960
Job Search Behavior among the Employed and Non-Employed
Jason Faberman, Andreas I. Mueller, Aysegül Sahin, Giorgio Topa
published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (4),1743-1779
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10875
Working from Home and the Willingness to Accept a Longer Commute
Duco de Vos, Evert J. Meijers, Maarten van Ham
published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2018, 61, 375 - 398
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10668
Returns to On-the-Job Search and the Dispersion of Wages
Axel Gottfries, Coen Teulings
published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 102292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10655
How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
David McKenzie
published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2017, 32(2), 127-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10488
Early Cannabis Use and School to Work Transition of Young Men
Jenny Williams, Jan C. van Ours
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10487
Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search: Structural Estimation and Policy Design
Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe, Andrey Launov, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (1), 75-120
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10480
Do Neighbors Help Finding a Job? Social Networks and Labor Market Outcomes After Plant Closures
Elke J. Jahn, Michael Neugart
substantially revised version in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101825,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10353
Strengthening Enforcement in Unemployment Insurance: A Natural Experiment
Patrick Arni, Amelie Schiprowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10321
Active Labor Market Policies
Bruno Crépon, Gerard J. van den Berg
published in: Annual Review of Economics, 8 2016, 521-546
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10264
Benefit Duration and Job Search Effort: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Andreas Lichter
substantially revised version published as 'Benefit duration, job search behavior and re-employment' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104326 (joint with Amelie Schiprowski)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10177
Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Arne Uhlendorff
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 177-193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10119
Migration Experience and Access to a First Job in Uganda
Delphine Boutin
published in: International Labour Review, 2018, 157, 631 -650
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