Uhlendorff, Arne; Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2010
Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their … are determined by his or her own actions as opposed to external factors. We estimate the impact of locus of control on job … search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …