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Self-regulation Training and Job Search Behavior: A Natural Field Experiment Within an Active Labor Market Program
Henning HermesDaniel SchunkEva M. BergerFelix SchmidtGuenther Koenigsubject
Mental contrastingRandomized controlled triallawmedia_common.quotation_subjectNull (mathematics)Applied psychologyQuality (business)Active LaborNatural fieldPsychologyTraining (civil)media_commonlaw.inventiondescription
Recent evidence suggests that self-regulation abilities play an important role for the job finding success of unemployed persons. We conduct a randomized controlled trial embedded in an established labor market reactivation program to examine the effect of a self-regulation training on job search effort of long-term unemployed participants. Our treatment involves teaching a self-regulation strategy based on mental contrasting with implementation intentions. We find that the treatment has a positive effect on the quality of application documents as well as on the probability of participants submitting their documents on time. However, we do not find a significant positive effect on labor market reintegration. We discuss several reasons for this null finding and conduct further exploratory analyses to learn about heterogeneous treatment effects.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-01 | SSRN Electronic Journal |