题目： “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For”: Evidence of Directed Search from a Field Experiment

报告人：何浩然 教授       北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院

主持人：陈叶烽 副教授   浙江大学民营经济研究中心

时间：   2021年11月5日（星期五） 下午2：00 -3：30

地点：   腾讯会议（会议 ID：263 343 040； 本次会议对外开放，请加入会议者将个人姓名备注为 真实姓名+单位）

摘要: 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 varied the wage offers across three ranges. We find that higher wage offers raise application rates overall, which is consistent with directed search but can also arise with random search. We also find that higher wage offers raise application rates for job seekers with wage offers above reservation wages, and that – among the latter – the increase in application rates is stronger for those with higher reservation wages. The latter two types of evidence are consistent with directed search but not random search. Hence, our evidence lends support to directed search models.

简介：何浩然，瑞典哥德堡大学经济学博士，北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院教授、博士生导师、国家一级运动员。主要研究领域为行为经济学、实验经济学、劳动力市场、亲社会行为、团队决策、公共政策评估。近年来在Journal of Labor Economics、Experimental Economics、Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization、Journal of Economic Psychology、Economics Letters、China Economic Review、《管理世界》、《经济学（季刊）》、《世界经济》等期刊上发表多篇论文。

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2021-10-25