TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Vyborny, Kate
AU  - Garlick, Robert
AU  - Subramanian, Nivedhitha
AU  - Field, Erica
        TI  - Why Don't Jobseekers Search More? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform
        PY  - 2024/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17520
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17520
        AB  - Understanding specific barriers to job search and returns to relaxing these barriers is important for economists and policymakers. An experiment that changes the default process for initiating job applications increases applications by 600% on a search platform in Pakistan. Perhaps surprisingly, the marginal treatment-induced applications have approximately constant rather than decreasing returns. These results are consistent with a directed search model in which some jobseekers miss some high-return vacancies due to psychological costs of initiating applications. These findings show that small reductions in search costs can substantially improve search outcomes in environments with some relatively inactive jobseekers.
        KW  - behavioural economics
KW  - job search
KW  - search frictions
KW  - platform
        ER  -