Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Carranza, Eliana; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; Rankin, Neil
• 署名单位: The World Bank; Duke University; University of Oxford; Stellenbosch University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20200961
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 3547-3583
• 关键词: labor-market; networks; personality; performance; education

摘要

We assess South African workseekers' skills and disseminate the assessment results to explore how limited information affects firm and workseeker behavior. Giving workseekers assessment results that they can credibly share with firms increases workseekers' employ-ment and earnings and better aligns their skills, beliefs and search strategies. Giving workseekers assessment results that they cannot easily share with firms has similar effects on beliefs and search, but smaller effects on employment and earnings. Giving assessment results only to firms shifts interview decisions. These findings show that getting credible skill information to the right agents can improve outcomes in the labor market. (JEL J22, J23, J24, J31, J41, J64, O15)