Am Beispiel der Schweizer Justizinitiative zeigen wir auf, dass eine qualifizierte Losauswahl keineswegs irrational ist, sondern zu einer Rationalität auf einer übergeordneten, institutionellen Ebene führen kann. Sie erhöht die Wahrscheinlichkeit, ausgezeichnete Kandidierende für eine...

A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...

We evaluate the impacts of a randomized job-fair intervention in which jobseekers and employers can meet at low cost. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest more in search as predicted by a theoretical model;...