Unemployment and willingness to accept job offers: results of a factorial survey experiment
Unemployment and willingness to accept job offers: results of a factorial survey experiment
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DOI：
10.1007/s12651-013-0142-1
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发表时间：
2013-11
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
M. Abraham;Katrin Auspurg;Sebastian Bähr;Corinna Frodermann;Stefanie Gundert;T. Hinz
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作者：
M. Abraham;Katrin Auspurg;Sebastian Bähr;Corinna Frodermann;Stefanie Gundert;T. Hinz
在任何劳动力市场，将个人与工作相匹配都是一个根本问题。本文重点研究了工资、工作质量、与当前居住地的距离等工作特征，以及这些特征对就业和失业个体接受新工作机会意愿的影响。利用在第五波大规模人口调查（劳动力市场和社会保障小组研究）中实施的实验性析因调查模块，比较了就业和失业劳动力市场参与者接受新工作机会的意愿，同时考虑到收入增加或通勤距离等工作特点。在这项研究中，失业和就业的个人收到了相同的假设工作机会。与理论论点一致，约4，000名受访者提供的约20，000份评价显示，失业参与者通常比在职参与者更愿意接受新工作。此外，失业人员在工作质量方面可能比就业人员作出更多让步，例如接受定期工作机会。有趣的是，几乎没有证据表明不同的决策或流动成本的权重，这使我们能够得出结论，区域间的失业差距几乎不能解释的失业人员缺乏工作或搬迁的意愿。
Matching individuals to jobs is a fundamental problem in any labour market. This paper focuses on job characteristics, such as wages, job quality, and distance from the current place of residence, and the impact of these characteristics on the willingness of employed and unemployed individuals to accept new job offers. Using an experimental factorial survey module (FSM) implemented in the fifth wave of a large population survey (Panel StudyLabour Market and Social Security), the willingness of employed and unemployed labour market participants to accept new job offers was compared while considering job characteristics like gain of income or commuting distance. In this study, unemployed and employed individuals received the same set of hypothetical job offers. Consistent with theoretical arguments, the about 20,000 evaluations provided by about 4,000 respondents showed that unemployed participants generally exhibit a greater willingness to accept new job offers than employed ones. Moreover, unemployed individuals were likely to make more concessions than employed individuals with respect to job quality, such as accepting fixed-term job offers. Interestingly, little evidence for different decision-making or weightings of mobility costs was found, which enables us to conclude that interregional unemployment disparities can scarcely be explained by unemployed individuals lacking the willingness to work or relocate.