scholarly journals Does training trigger turnover - or not?

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Sieben
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Training Intensity ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Search Behaviour ◽  
Model Training

This study advances on previous research training and turnover in two ways. First, insights from the human capital perspective are contrasted with insights from the commitment perspective. Second, several aspects of training are simultaneously studied in one model: training intensity (incidence and duration), specificity (type of training, location, and objectives), and funding (payment and timing). The results show, in line with the human capital perspective, that specific training decreases female graduates' probability to search for a new job. Other findings are more in favour of the commitment perspective. After controlling for training intensity and specificity, employer-funded training is associated with lower levels of job search for male graduates. In addition, female graduates who follow management training are less likely to search for a new job. Other aspects of training are not related to job search behaviour, however.

scholarly journals Sustaining the integrity of the threatened self: A cluster-randomised trial among social assistance applicants in the Netherlands

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252268
Author(s):  
Mira Bierbaum ◽  
Eleonora E. M. Nillesen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Randomised Trial ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Cluster Randomised Trial ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Search Behaviour ◽  
Cluster Randomised ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Negative Feelings

Stereotypes and stigma associated with living on welfare or a low income can be a psychological threat that hampers performance and undermines aspirations. Our paper explores the potential of a novel self-affirmation intervention to mitigate such adverse impacts. The intervention comprises a verbal self-affirmation exercise for applicants during their first meeting with a caseworker. We conduct a cluster-randomised trial among a sample of 174 applicants for social assistance benefits in a Social Services office in Maastricht, the Netherlands. We measure outcomes on feelings of self-worth, stress, societal belonging, job search behaviour self-efficacy and cognitive performance immediately after the meeting. In our full sample, the intervention has a negative impact on feelings of societal belonging, but no effect on other outcomes. Effects, however, vary by subgroups. Our treatment increases negative feelings of self-worth and negatively affects societal belonging, but also improves cognitive performance among the group that had paid work in the previous two years. By contrast, self-affirmation positively impacts job search behaviour self-efficacy and cognitive performance for individuals who face increased challenges to (re)integrate into the labour market, proxied by lower levels of education or social assistance receipt in the previous two years. Since our intervention gives rise to testing more than one null hypothesis, we control the false discovery rate using the Benjamini-Hochberg approach. Our findings are sobering. Effects only remain significant for negative feelings of self-worth and improved cognitive performance for one particular subgroup: individuals with paid work in the past two years. This suggests self-affirmation may have reminded them of the time they still had a job, hence creating a backlash effect on feelings of self-worth. At the same time, they may have felt a need to distinguish themselves from others on social assistance benefits resulting in better cognitive performance. These interpretations are consistent with theory and empirical evidence on social identity and self-categorisation. We discuss the implications of our results and outline avenues for future work.

scholarly journals Why do Young People Give up Their Job Search?

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Ylistö
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Search Behaviour ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Labour Market Position ◽  
Unemployed Youth

The decision to search or not to search for work is usually considered a purely individual choice. However, this is a simplistic view, which ignores important structural and situational aspects of job search behaviour. This article discusses the reasons why long-term unemployed youth in Finland give up their search for work or a student place. The data comprise 28 life course interviews that were analysed by means of content analysis. The data show that young people’s job seeking behaviour is greatly influenced by how they view their labour market position and prospects. Job search abandonment is often temporary and young people soon resume their search because of the expectations of the society around them and their willingness to find work. The young people interviewed provided rational, emotional and life value reasons for their decision to suspend their job search. The article offers a deeper understanding of youths’ job search behaviour.

Flexible Job Search Behaviour Scale

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Vansteenkiste ◽  
Marijke Verbruggen ◽  
Luc Sels
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Search Behaviour

scholarly journals The Cost of Job Loss

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 1757-1798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Burdett ◽  
Carlos Carrillo-Tudela ◽  
Melvyn Coles
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Wage Formation ◽  
Optimal Contracting ◽  
The Cost ◽  
German Data

Abstract This article identifies an equilibrium theory of wage formation and endogenous quit turnover in a labour market with on-the-job search, where risk averse workers accumulate human capital through learning-by-doing and lose skills while unemployed. Optimal contracting implies the wage paid increases with experience and tenure. Indirect inference using German data determines the deep parameters of the model. The estimated model not only reproduces the large and persistent fall in wages and earnings following job loss, a new structural decomposition finds foregone human capital accumulation (while unemployed) is the worker’s major cost of job loss.

scholarly journals Skill Loss, Ranking of Job Applicants and the Dynamics of Unemployment

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Job Applicants ◽  
Adjustment Process ◽  
Efficiency Wage ◽  
Fundamental Factor ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Turnover Costs ◽  
Search Firms

Abstract This paper investigates the consequences of skill loss as a result of unemployment in an efficiency wage model with turnover costs and on-the-job search. Firms are unable to differentiate wages and therefore prefer to hire employed searchers or unemployed workers who have not lost human capital. It is shown that if some fundamental factor in the economy changes, this will result in a lengthy adjustment process with substantial long-run unemployment effects. Moreover, the model is capable of generating persistence, but the amount depends on the duration of the shock itself.

scholarly journals The Informational Value of Job-Search Data and the Dynamics of Search Behaviour

2002 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Micklewright ◽  
Gyula Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Market Analysis ◽  
Search Behaviour ◽  
Search Data ◽  
Behaviour Changes ◽  
Job Finding ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Informational Value

Labour-market analysis places much emphasis on the concept of search. But there is insufficient empirical information on (a) the relationship between reported job-search and job-finding and (b) how search behaviour changes over a spell without work. We investigate these issues using a sample constructed from Hungarian labour-force survey panel data of the flow from jobs to the state of “joblessness”. The results on job exits call into question aspects of the standard international classification of “unemployment”and being “out of the labour force”. Transitions during joblessness in and out of search and among the various categories of non-search are found to be only modest.

Job Information Networks, Neighborhood Effects, and Inequality

2004 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 1056-1093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis M Ioannides ◽  
Linda Datcher Loury
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Information Networks ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Job Information

This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature to examine the use by different social groups of informal sources of information provided by friends, relatives, and acquaintances during job search and its consequences for the job market. It also addresses the role of network structure and size, the resource endowments of contacts, and nature of the links between contacts to explain differences in the effects of job information networks. In doing so, the paper also turns to the sociology literature on job information networks and provides an economic perspective on such sociological concepts as strong versus weak ties, inbreeding, distance from structural holes, etc. The paper distinguishes between models of exogenous job information networks, that is where individuals obtain job-related information through a given social structure, and endogenous job information networks, which are social networks that result from individuals' uncoordinated actions. The paper pays special attention to such issues as physical and social proximity and sharing of information and discusses them in the context of the recent social interactions and neighborhood effects literature. Finally, the paper outlines a model that integrates job information networks, where interactions occur in business cycle frequencies, with the dynamics of human capital formation, which include the joint effects of parental, community and neighborhood human capital, and are set in life cycle frequencies, for the purpose of organizing suggestions for future research and examining earned income inequality.

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