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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Job Search"”.
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Essays on job search and retraining
… effects of information barriers in situations of job search and retraining. Chapter 1 (coauthored with Esther Mbih) begins from the observation that little is known about how job seekers decide to enroll in a training program. Decisions related to job training might be undermined by informational …
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on-the-Job and Full-Time Job Search
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Essays on job search, unemployment, and regulatory compliance
… ties on the quality of opportunities pursued in job search. Using fixed effects models, I show that when the job seeker uses contacts, she pursues jobs that pay less than the jobs she pursues through formal methods. In addition, the analysis show that networks limit the geographical and …
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Essays on job search behavior and labor market policies
… of the impact of these programs on the job search behavior and the interplay with long-term labor market outcomes is necessary. This allows policy makers to improve the design of labor market policies and the allocation of unemployed workers into specific programs. Moreover, previous …
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A job-search model of migration between metropolitan areas.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Employment and Welfare-to-Work Training Initiatives: The Effects of Pre-Training Attitudes on Job-Search Behavior, Employment Status, and Job-Search Intended Effort
… between these variables and post-training job-search behavior, employment status, and job-search intended effort of unemployed trainees. The behavioral plasticity hypothesis was also explored in conjunction with the variables of general and specific self-efficacy, employment commitment, and …
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Stochastic Control, Optimal Saving, and Job Search in Continuous Time
Economic uncertainty may affect significantly people’s behavior and hence macroeconomic variables. It is thus important to understand how people behave in presence of different kinds of economic risk. The present dissertation focuses therefore on the impact of the uncertainty in capital and labor …
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Job search strategies and social networks : evidence from the Khayelitsha
… factors which determine the choice of the search method used by the unemployed in looking for jobs. In line with the existing literature on job search in South Africa we identify that job search is constrained by the low probability of finding a job and the cost of job search. Especially in …
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Persevering Through Stress: An Examination of Professional Rejection During the Job Search
… for how individuals progress in their careers. Job seekers are uniquely faced with repeated professional rejections, which may exacerbate the already difficult circumstances of unemployment and lead to increased stress. Professional rejection sensitivity (an individual’s propensity to react …
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The Price Of Deviance: Social Norms And Access To Job Search Assistance
Assistance in job search is a valuable social resource that can markedly benefit its recipients. However, recent studies have shown that people who have information about jobs frequently withhold assistance from job seekers. In other words, knowledge of job information, the ability to help, and …
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Essays on Models of the Labour Market with On-the-Job Search
… for how to model bargaining when there is on-the-job search and worker turnover depends on the wage. Bargaining is a standard feature in models without on-the-jobs search, but, due to endogeneity of the match surplus, a solution does not exist when worker turnover depends on the wage. My solution …
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Disaggregate behavioural land use modelling: Integration of housing search, job search and households' dynamics
… and behavioural models are more common in research. Although disaggregate models are more realistic, they are more challenging to develop. This is because households’ decision on housing relocation, which directly impacts housing consumption, is a compound decision. The motivation for …
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An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Wages, Mismatch, On-the-Job Search and Education
… skill mismatch and wages in a labour market with search frictions with on-the-job search. In the first paper, I used empirical techniques to look at the link between skill mismatch and wages. I found that over-education and mismatch is part of a career mobility or job-to-job transition in the …
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Empirical essays on job search behavior, active labor market policies, and propensity score balancing methods
… is analyzed as an important determinant in the search behavior of the unemployed. Based on the hypothesis that the unemployed generate information on vacancies through their social network, search theory predicts that individuals with large social networks should experience an increased …
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Workers' heterogeneity and job search in the flow approach to labor markets : a theoretical analysis
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1996.
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Levels of Effectiveness of Communication Skills Used by College Students During The Job Search Process
… in exploring their career interests and finding jobs upon graduation. Employers have reported that college students conducting job search processes do not posses the skills they seek in applicants. Specifically, employers have mentioned the lack of written and oral communication skills among …
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A Comparative Assessment of Two Job Search Assistance Programs in A Local Employment and Training Agency
The purpose of the research was to compare two job search assistance (JSA) approaches which were based on the Azrin Job-Finding Club and the Cullen Job Factory, to determine which was more effective in increasing the employment rate of the economically disadvantaged participants. The study was …
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The spatial mismatch hypothesis and the use of social networks for job search in Cape Town
… a lengthy and expensive commute which makes the job search in economic centres more difficult, (2) reduces the amount of information about job opportunities that is available to lower-skilled workers, and (3) reduces the effectiveness of using one's social network as a means to find out about …
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