Philipp Kircher’s research while affiliated with Catholic University of Louvain and other places

... Public job training programs help learning new skills but have limited positive implications for the time spent looking for a job, the employment outcome and the well-being of the job seeker, specifically tips to improve search and recommendations of new occupations and locations (Ben Dhia et al., 2022). Nevertheless, targeted advice may have a positive impact on the reintegration of long-term unemployed job seekers into the labour market by enabling them to broaden the scope of their search (Belot et al., 2022). ...

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Online job search discouragement: How employment platforms and digital exclusion shape the experience of low‐qualified job seekers?

... The literature has emphasised the relevance of opening jobseekers' perspectives on online platforms similar to ours (Altmann et al, 2022;Belot et al, 2022). Building on this, we show vacancies in occupations neighbouring the one selected by the jobseeker -but still applying the relevant filters. ...

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Labour market data, job matching and job quality

... The McCall (1970) This study is, to the best of my knowledge, the first attempt to experimentally vary the costs of access to job information. Related experimental work evaluates various programs for job search advice and monitoring (Graversen and van Ours, 2008;Crépon et al., 2013;Behaghel et al., 2014;Altmann et al., 2018;Belot et al., 2018), information on the number of applicants (Gee, 2019), and the wording of job postings (Abraham and Stein, 2022). Pertinent observational studies investigate how the internet changed job search (Kuhn and Skuterud, 2004;Kuhn and Mansour, 2014;Kroft and Pope, 2014 ...

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Cheap Search, Picky Workers? Evidence from a Field Experiment

... Third, our paper contributes to work in behavioral labor economics. It has been shown that workers exhibit behavioral tendencies in the context of job search, including present bias (DellaVigna & Paserman, 2005;Belot et al., 2021), reference dependence (DellaVigna et al., 2017), and overconfidence (Spinnewijn, 2015). Our paper shows that workers also exhibit overoptimism, believing that firms will be more successful than they actually are. ...

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Information Frictions and Employee Sorting between Startups

... The results of providing more directed job search advice in an online format so that job seekers may consider alternative jobs within similar occupations were positive in a randomized experiment conducted in the United Kingdom (Belot et al. (2019). Indeed, those who searched for relatively narrow occupations and who had been unemployed for a considerable time responded by significantly altering and enlarging the pool of vacancies considered. ...

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Five Decades of Disability Benefit Policies in Five OECD Countries

... Going back to Moen (1997), it is well understood that heterogeneity entails price dispersion in competitive search equilibrium, which, as we said, features price posting (rather than bargaining) and directed (rather than random) meetings. Instead of citing a plethora of other papers, in the interest of space we refer readers to the comprehensive survey on competitive search by Wright et al. (2021). Existing applications of competitive search to housing include Diaz and Jerez (2013), Albrecht et al. (2016), Hedlund (2016a, b), Garriga and Hedlund (2020) and Head et al. (2022), but they do not address the issues studied here. ...

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Price dispersion and price stickiness in a competitive search model of housing markets

... Algorithms would allow organisations to harness the power of big data (Cukier & Mayer-Schoenberger, 2013) to reorganise work and workers in the process, making them much more efficient by marrying human and computer reasoning (Shestakofsky, 2017;Wilson & Daugherty, 2018), to enable employees to do more in less time, all while doing it cheaper, to automate work, and to 'free up time' for human agents to do the work that matters (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2014). PESs use algorithms to match jobseekers to vacancies, to determine jobseekers' needs and skill levels, and to decide the best way to support their 'clients' to obtain work (Belot et al., 2019;Caswell et al., 2010;Klewais, 2017). The introduction of algorithms makes it possible for PESs to adapt their service to the needs of the individual jobseeker (Bovens & Zouridis, 2002;Danneels & Viaene, 2015;Henman, 2019;Redden, 2018;Zouridis et al., 2020). ...

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Changing the Activation of At-Risk Jobseekers: Algorithmically Redefining Categories of Vulnerability

... Second, the laboratory setting allows us to control better for choice motives, which can be difficult to disentangle when using revealed choices from field data. A consumer may, for instance, choose a contract because he or she expects a claim to be more likely or because of risk aversion, either of which can be reflected in certain preferences for contract features such as low deductibles (Ericson et al., 2021). In our stylized decision situation, we assume identical probabilities of illness for each participant -i.e., the expected value of each contract could be calculated by the participants. ...

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Heterogeneity in Health Insurance Choice: An Experimental Investigation of Consumer Choice and Feature Preferences

... The rapid development and widespread adoption of the Internet, social media, and technology have significantly transformed various aspects of daily life (Chayko 2020;Jadhav and Thepade 2019;Reed 2018). Propelled by its extensive reach, costeffectiveness, and flexibility, cyberspace has become indispensable for a wide range of activities, including job searching (Kircher 2020). Companies increasingly post job advertisements online, making online job searching an essential activity for job seekers. ...

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Cyber victimization in hybrid space: an analysis of employment scams using natural language processing and machine learning models

... A large body of empirical research in economics and sociology has analyzed unemployment duration, rates of job uptake, and the pecuniary consequences of job loss and unemployment (Arulampalam, 2001;Brand, 2015;Gangl, 2006). However, the search trade-off between the matching of occupational prestige post-unemployment relative to pre-unemployment and speed of reemployment, particularly important in occupational labor markets, has received little attention (Kircher, 2015). Evidence from the few recent studies examining the direction of jobseekers' mobility following unemployment or displacement across several OECD countries points to job-quality scars inflicted by unemployment, ranging from lower job authority to status (Bethmann, 2013;Brand, 2006;Dieckhoff, 2011;Lippmann & Rosenthal, 2008). ...

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Landing a job, sinking a career? The trade-off between occupational downgrading and quick reemployment according to unemployed jobseekers’ career stage and job prospects