Employment risk and job-seeker performance

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dc.creatorGodlonton, Susan
dc.date2014
dc.date2024-08-01T02:57:11Z
dc.date2024-08-01T02:57:11Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:22:55Z
dc.descriptionThis 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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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/151414
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/102689
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://www.ifpri.org/blog/farming-key-solving-youth-unemployment-africa
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153565
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153528
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceGodlonton, 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
dc.subjectstress
dc.subjectlabour market
dc.subjectrandomized controlled trials
dc.subjectlabour
dc.subjectmarkets
dc.subjecteconomics
dc.titleEmployment risk and job-seeker performance
dc.typeWorking Paper

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