Self-regulation training and job search input: A natural field experiment within an active labor market program

Berger, Eva; Hermes, Henning; Koenig, Guenther; Schmidt, Felix N.; Schunk, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.socec.2022.101858

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“…Berger et al. (2022) show how a self‐regulation course (focused on mental contrasting) offered to the unemployed helps them improve the quality of application documents and submitting them on time (evidence of improved job search quality). Hodzic et al.…”

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“…They must be supportive of the job search process, and unemployed workers must perceive them as supportive. Berger et al (2022) show how a self-regulation course (focused on mental contrasting) offered to the unemployed helps them improve the quality of application documents and submitting them on time (evidence of improved job search quality). Hodzic et al (2015) show how a self-regulation course (focused on emotional competences) increased unemployed workers' perceptions of their employability and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, leading to increased job search success.…”

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“…Figure 1 shows how the unemployed worker starts the job search process setting, committing to and subsequently striving for an employment goal (Berger et al. 2022; Van Hooft et al. 2021).…”

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“…Among the first to investigate the question of what mechanism(s) could lead benefit eligibility requirements to result in inferior labor market outcomes, Gerards and Welters (2022a) look for the answer in the job search process. Figure 1 shows how the unemployed worker starts the job search process setting, committing to and subsequently striving for an employment goal (Berger et al 2022;Van Hooft et al 2021). Self-regulatory capabilities should keep the unemployed worker on track to strive for goal achievement.…”

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“…The job search process. Source: Authors' own visualization, synthesizing concepts fromVan Hooft et al (2021),Berger et al (2022), andMelloy et al (2018).…”

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Unemployment benefit eligibility requirements and perceived time pressure

Gerards

Welters

2023

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives: An emerging body of literature links stressors or obstacles (e.g., compliance to an unemployment benefit eligibility requirement) to poor job search quality, questioning the effectiveness of such requirements in helping the unemployed to find employment. We investigate whether compliance to an unemployment benefit eligibility requirement affects an unemployed person's perception of time pressure, which theory relates to job search quality and which itself is hard to gauge. Methods: We conduct a propensity-score matching analysis, using data on the Australian "mutual obligations" program, matching otherwise similar unemployed persons with and without an unemployment benefit eligibility requirement. Results: Controlling for a wide range of confounders, we find a statistically significant positive effect of an unemployment benefit eligibility requirement on the affected person's perception of time pressure as theory predicts. Conclusions: Others have hypothesized that poor labor market outcomes for those subjected to a "mutual obligations" requirement are a result of the requirement's adverse effect on job search quality. Our finding that compliance to unemployment benefit eligibility requirements increases an unemployed person's perceptions of time pressure aligns with that hypothesis. KEYWORDS benefit eligibility requirements, job search, mutual obligations, time pressure, unemploymentThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

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“…Figure 1 shows how the unemployed worker starts the job search process setting, committing to and subsequently striving for an employment goal (Berger et al. 2022; Van Hooft et al. 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

“…The job search process. Source: Authors' own visualization, synthesizing concepts fromVan Hooft et al (2021),Berger et al (2022), andMelloy et al (2018).…”

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