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Why Don’t Jobseekers Search More? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform 2016-2022

Pakistan, 2016 - 2022
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Reference ID
PAK_2016-2022_BRSJMP_v01_M
Producer(s)
Kate Vyborny, Robert Garlick, Nivedhitha Subramanian, Erica Field
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Jul 13, 2026
Last modified
Jul 13, 2026
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  • Identification
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data collection
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    PAK_2016-2022_BRSJMP_v01_M
    Title

    Why Don’t Jobseekers Search More? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform 2016-2022
    Abbreviation or Acronym

    BRSJMP 2016-22
    Country/Economy
    Name Country code
    Pakistan PAK
    Study type

    Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
    Abstract
    Understanding specific barriers to job search and returns to relaxing these barriers is important for economists and policymakers. An experiment that changes the default process for initiating job applications increases applications by 600% on a search platform in Pakistan.

    Perhaps surprisingly, the marginal treatment-induced applications have approximately constant rather than decreasing returns. These results are consistent with a directed search model in which some jobseekers miss some high-return vacancies due to psychological costs of initiating applications. These findings show that small reductions in search costs can substantially improve search outcomes in environments with some relatively inactive jobseekers.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Individual

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Kate Vyborny World Bank
    Robert Garlick Duke University
    Nivedhitha Subramanian Bates College
    Erica Field Duke University

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2016-10-25 2022-11-30

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email
    Kate Vyborny World Bank kvyborny@worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_PAK_2016-2022_BRSJMP_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group DECDG World Bank Group Documentation of the survey

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (July 2026)
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