{"doc_desc":{"idno":"DDI_PAK_2016-2022_BRSJMP_v01_M","producers":[{"name":"Development Data Group","abbr":"DECDG","affiliation":"World Bank Group","role":"Documentation of the survey"}],"version_statement":{"version":"Version 01 (July 2026)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"PAK_2016-2022_BRSJMP_v01_M","title":"Why Don\u2019t Jobseekers Search More? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform 2016-2022","alternate_title":"BRSJMP 2016-22"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Kate Vyborny","affiliation":"World Bank"},{"name":"Robert Garlick","affiliation":"Duke University"},{"name":"Nivedhitha Subramanian","affiliation":"Bates College"},{"name":"Erica Field","affiliation":"Duke University"}],"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Kate Vyborny","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"kvyborny@worldbank.org","uri":""}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Other Household Survey [hh\/oth]"},"study_info":{"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.\n\nPerhaps 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.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2016-10-25","end":"2022-11-30","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Pakistan","abbreviation":"PAK"}],"analysis_unit":"Individual","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]"}},"schematype":"survey","tags":[{"tag":"DOI"}]}