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An adaptive targeted field experiment : job search assistance for refugees in Jordan
Caria, Stefano A.; Gordon, Grant; Kasy, Maximilian; … - 2020
experiment. We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and … local jobseekers in Jordan: one treatment to address liquidity constraints, one to address information frictions, and one to … of all treatments for refugees at the two-month follow-up, and suggestive evidence of four-month impacts for the cash …
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Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? : evidence from a field experiment
Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the … refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …
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LinkedOut? : a field experiment on discrimination in job network formation
Evsyukova, Yulia; Rusche, Felix; Mill, Wladislaw - 2024
We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the U.S. using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ fictitious LinkedIn profiles. In the first stage, we vary race via AI-generated images only and find that Black profiles’ connection requests are 13 percent...
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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...
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Learning about job search : a field experiment with job seekers in Germany
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Jäger, Simon; … - 2015
We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned to the treatment group of our experiment received a brochure that informed them about job search...
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How wage announcements affect job search : a field experiment
Belot, Michèle; Kircher, Philipp; Muller, Paul - 2018
We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, in contrast with much of the evidence based on observational data. Some applicants only show...
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Employment and reallocation effects of higher minimum wages
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz - 2023
This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and worker and firm heterogeneity. I find that minimum wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014267170
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Estimating equilibrium effects of job search assistance
Gautier, Pieter; Muller, Paul; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2015 - July 16, 2012
Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
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Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2019
We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with "sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long-term unemployed individuals, containing indicators of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123073
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Price floors and employer prefernces : evidence from a minimum wage experiment
Horton, John J. - 2017
Minimum hourly wages were randomly imposed on firms posting job openings in an online labor market. A higher minimum wage raised the wages of hired workers substantially. However, there was some reduction in hiring and large reductions in hours-worked. Treated firms hired more productive...
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