'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For': Evidence of Directed Search from a Field Experiment*.
We explore the impact of wage offers on job applications, testing implications of the directed search model and trying to distinguish it from random search. We use a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board, with real jobs for which we randomly vary the wage offers across three ranges. We f...
| Publicado en: | Economic Journal Vol. 133; no. 649; pp. 258 - 281 |
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