Posts tagged with 'job search'
December 21, 2024
High returns to making job applications easier
Experiment in Pakistan: Lowering psychological cost boosts job application rates by 600 percent
November 4, 2024
Air pollution cuts job seekers’ wage demands
New study links poor air quality to reduced job search effort
November 28, 2023
Promoting labor market mobility among job seekers can backfire
New research highlights unexpected pitfalls and offers insights for more effective policies
August 9, 2023
Woke jobs after Dobbs?
How public support for female employees both helped and hurt some employers after Roe v. Wade was overturned
July 1, 2022
Increased wage transparency in job postings has no effect on gender pay gap
Study from Austria finds that pay transparency law did not make women more likely to switch to better-paid jobs
April 23, 2020
Helping job seekers online
COVID-19 increases joblessness but also prevents the provision of face-to-face employment assistance
February 26, 2020
Does it pay to start your career with a job at a larger firm?
Size matters for young workers' long-term outcomes
September 28, 2018
Matching workers and jobs online
IDSC of IZA workshop discussed new developments and opportunities for social science and practice
December 20, 2017
State-funded mobility assistance helps the unemployed
Given that employment prospects vary substantially across regions in many industrialized countries.
February 24, 2017
IZA/IAB Linked Evaluation Dataset: New resource for the analysis of labor market policies
High-quality data are the key to evaluating the effectiveness of labor market policies. While administrative datasets provide detailed and reliable […]
June 2, 2015
Causes and remedies of youth unemployment
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, one in five young people in Europe are currently unemployed, with peak rates […]
January 27, 2014
Soccer motivates the unemployed
International soccer tournaments attract enormous attention in most countries. Germany is one country in which these soccer tournaments are especially […]
May 31, 2013
Seek and ye shall find: how search requirements affect job finding rates of older workers
Older workers often have difficulties to find a new job after becoming unemployment. While this problem is often attributed to […]