Self-Regulation Training and Job Search Effort: A Natural Field Experiment within an Active Labor Market Program

Felix Schmidt, Eva Berger, Daniel Schunk, Henning Müller and Günther König

VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: We conducted a randomized natural field experiment embedded in an existing labor market reactivation program to examine the effect of a self-regulation training on long-term unemployed individuals. First, we find a positive treatment effect on the quality of submitted CVs. Second, there is no overall treatment effect on (short-term) labor market reintegration, but heterogeneous effects with respect to participants’ Locus of Control that are consistent with psychological theory.

JEL-codes: C93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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