Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his or her search effort on the rate at which job offers arri...

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Top MBA Careers [12] Provides job opportunities from a complete range of direct recruiters and search firms, plus networking and careers information. Vault.com [13] Fortune magazine calls vault "The best place on the web to prepare for your job search." A premier site. WetFeet [14] A website and magazine created to equip job seekers with advice, research and inspiration needed to plan and achie...

Top MBA Careers [12] Provides job opportunities from a complete range of direct recruiters and search firms, plus networking and careers information. Vault.com [13] Fortune magazine calls vault "The best place on the web to prepare for your job search." A premier site. WetFeet [14] A website and magazine created to equip job seekers with advice, research and inspiration needed to plan and achie...

Top MBA Careers [12] Provides job opportunities from a complete range of direct recruiters and search firms, plus networking and careers information. Vault.com [13] Fortune magazine calls vault "The best place on the web to prepare for your job search." A premier site. WetFeet [14] A website and magazine created to equip job seekers with advice, research and inspiration needed to plan and achie...

in this paper, the flexible job shop scheduling problem with machine flexibility and controllable process times is studied. the main idea is that the processing times of operations may be controlled by consumptions of additional resources. the purpose of this paper to find the best trade-off between processing cost and delay cost in order to minimize the total costs. the proposed model, flexibl...

Top MBA Careers [12] Provides job opportunities from a complete range of direct recruiters and search firms, plus networking and careers information. Vault.com [13] Fortune magazine calls vault "The best place on the web to prepare for your job search." A premier site. WetFeet [14] A website and magazine created to equip job seekers with advice, research and inspiration needed to plan and achie...

The 2007‐2009 U.S. recession led to large increases in the potential duration of unemployment benefits (PBD), which could decrease job search effort. I measure search effort by job applications on the popular website Careerbuilder.com. Using an event study and nonlinearities in the relationship between PBD and the unemployment rate, I find that a one‐week increase in PBD decreases state‐le...

We propose and examine a self-regulatory framework focused on understanding the dynamics of job search intensity and mental health over the first several months of unemployment. We use a repeated-measures design, surveying newly unemployed individuals weekly for 20 weeks. Through the lens of our framework, we test relationships pertaining to the role of motivational “traits” (i.e., temporally s...

Can Active Labor Market Policy Be Counter-Productive? We study active labor market policies (ALMP) in a matching model. ALMPs are modelled as a subsidy to job search. Workers differ in their productivity, and search takes place along an extensive margin. An additional job seeker affects the quality of unemployed workers. As a result, the Hosios conditions are no longer valid. To replicate the o...