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Abstract
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Getting the unemployed back into work is an important policy agenda and the central mandate for employment agencies. But the tools available to employment agencies, e.g. search verification, or active labor market programs, do not yet support job seekers much in solving one of the key challenges of job search finding the right vacancies to apply to. Job seekers may be looking for jobs that are not well suited for them, or out of the range that is feasible. In addition, job seekers may face cognitive challenges due to anxiety and stress, which reduce working memory and impair decisions, affecting their capacity to learn from their own experience, or search for diverse sets of job positions. Also, job seekers may procrastinate job search, and not search with sufficient intensity. We propose a field experiment to improve job search with three interventions: (i) improve the match between job seekers and vacancies based on new information on the job seeker ("J4U" intervention), (ii) "nudge" job seekers to search at regular intervals ("NJS" intervention), and (iii) provide cognitive training that has been shown to improve participants' ability to plan activities, work on multiple tasks in parallel, and make decisions ("COG" intervention). These abilities are central in job search.
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Getting the unemployed back into work is an important policy agenda and the central mandate for employment agencies. But the tools available to employment agencies, e.g. search verification, or active labor market programs, do not yet support job seekers much in solving one of the key challenges of job search finding the right vacancies to apply to. Job seekers may be looking for jobs that are not well suited for them, or out of the range that is feasible. In addition, job seekers may face cognitive challenges due to anxiety and stress, which reduce working memory and impair decisions, affecting their capacity to learn from their own experience, or search for diverse sets of job positions. We propose a field experiment to improve job search with three interventions: (i) improve the match between job seekers and vacancies based on new information on the job seeker ("J4U" intervention), and (ii) provide cognitive training that has been shown to improve participants' ability to plan activities, work on multiple tasks in parallel, and make decisions ("COG" intervention). These abilities are central in job search.
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Trial End Date
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June 01, 2022
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January 01, 2024
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Last Published
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March 31, 2019 11:09 PM
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May 31, 2022 11:55 AM
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Intervention End Date
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June 01, 2020
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March 01, 2023
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Experimental Design (Public)
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We propose an implementation plan that allows testing whether the three interventions are complementary. Job seekers could be able to use information much better once their cognitive capabilities have been improved. Likewise, information might work better if job seekers receive nudges that help them engage in job search. We take this into account by implementing a design that tests each intervention in isolation, but also in combination with one other intervention. Job seekers will be randomly assigned to one of six groups:
- a control group;
- a J4U group with information on jobs for you;
- a COG group with cognitive training;
- a NJS group with nudges;
- a J4U+NJS group that receives jobs for you, and nudges.
- a J4U+COG group cognition training, and information on jobs for you.
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We propose an implementation plan that allows testing whether the two interventions are complementary. Job seekers could be able to use information much better once their cognitive capabilities have been improved. We take this into account by implementing a design that tests each intervention in isolation, but also in combination with one other intervention. Job seekers will be randomly assigned to one of four groups:
- a control group;
- a J4U group with information on jobs for you;
- a COG group with cognitive training;
- a J4U+COG group cognition training, and information on jobs for you.
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Planned Number of Observations
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2400 job seekers
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1500 job seekers
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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400 job seekers in each group
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529 job seekers in total from canton of Neuchâtel
ongoing recruitment on canton of Vaud
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Keyword(s)
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Labor
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Labor
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Building on Existing Work
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No
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