Employment risk and job-seeker performance

This paper examines the relationship between employment risk and job-seeker performance. To induce exogenous variation in employment risk, the outside options for job seekers undergoing a real recruitment process were randomized by assigning them a 0, 1, 5, 50, 75, or 100 percent chance of real alte...

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Autor principal: Godlonton, Susan
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151414
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description This paper examines the relationship between employment risk and job-seeker performance. To induce exogenous variation in employment risk, the outside options for job seekers undergoing a real recruitment process were randomized by assigning them a 0, 1, 5, 50, 75, or 100 percent chance of real alternative employment of the same duration and wage as the jobs for which they were applying. The findings show that job-seeker performance is highest and effort is lowest among those assigned the lowest employment risk (a guaranteed alternative job), and performance is lowest and effort highest among those facing the highest employment risk (those without any job guarantee). Moreover, a nonlinear relationship exists between employment risk and performance.
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spelling CGSpace1514142025-11-06T06:37:34Z Employment risk and job-seeker performance Godlonton, Susan stress labour market randomized controlled trials labour markets economics This paper examines the relationship between employment risk and job-seeker performance. To induce exogenous variation in employment risk, the outside options for job seekers undergoing a real recruitment process were randomized by assigning them a 0, 1, 5, 50, 75, or 100 percent chance of real alternative employment of the same duration and wage as the jobs for which they were applying. The findings show that job-seeker performance is highest and effort is lowest among those assigned the lowest employment risk (a guaranteed alternative job), and performance is lowest and effort highest among those facing the highest employment risk (those without any job guarantee). Moreover, a nonlinear relationship exists between employment risk and performance. 2014 2024-08-01T02:57:11Z 2024-08-01T02:57:11Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151414 en https://www.ifpri.org/blog/farming-key-solving-youth-unemployment-africa https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153565 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153528 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Godlonton, Susan. 2014. Employment risk and job-seeker performance. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1332. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151414
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labour market
randomized controlled trials
labour
markets
economics
Godlonton, Susan
Employment risk and job-seeker performance
title Employment risk and job-seeker performance
title_full Employment risk and job-seeker performance
title_fullStr Employment risk and job-seeker performance
title_full_unstemmed Employment risk and job-seeker performance
title_short Employment risk and job-seeker performance
title_sort employment risk and job seeker performance
topic stress
labour market
randomized controlled trials
labour
markets
economics
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151414
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