. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest … a unique two-sided belief-elicitation survey, we confirm that firms and jobseekers have over-optimistic expectations … about the market. This suggests that, beyond slowing down matching, search frictions have a second understudied cost: they …

reason is that jobseekers initially had overoptimistic expectations, but learned about market conditions at the fair, lowered … their expectations, and became discouraged from job search. As a result, those who had already been employed kept their jobs …

recruiting company to directly test the effects of lower search costs in a field experiment among approximately 400 IT …

higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of …

We ask how employers contribute to unemployment scarring in the recruitment process in the German-speaking part of … Switzerland. By drawing on recruitment theories, we aim to better understand how recruiters assess different patterns of … collection. We employed a factorial survey experiment that tested how the (un)employment trajectories in hypothetical young job …

This paper analyzes how subjective expectations about wage opportunities influence the job search decision. We match … data on subjective wage expectations with administrative employment records. The data reveal that unemployed individuals … finding? We analyze this question using a structural job search framework in which subjective expectations about future wage …