Using a nationally representative sample of graduates from the high school class of 2003-2004, I test the warehouse hypothesis, which contends that youth are more likely to leave school and enter the labor force when there are available job opportunities (and vice versa). Using two measures of job opportunities--local unemployment rates and the percentage of local workers employed in jobs that ...

We propose that brand equity can influence job seekers’ perceptions of job opportunities. Our results suggest that job seekers view working for a strong brand as a way to build the power of their résumé. The belief that strong brands build powerful résumés is, in part, the outcome of job seekers’ beliefs that working for a strong brand will allow them to advance to better positions internally, ...

This paper addresses the large degree of frictional wage dispersion in US data. The standard job matching model without on-the-job search cannot replicate this pattern. With on-the-job search, however, unemployed job searchers are more willing to accept low wage offers since they can continue to seek for better employment opportunities. This explains why observably identical workers may be paid...

We argue that job crafting opportunities are not only helpful to motivate and enable the existing workforce but they can also function as a signal attract talent. With help of two empirical studies (Study 1 – conjoint experiment Study 2 vignette study), we show (a) signaled opportunity for helps seekers; (b) signals trigger positive well negative expectations central demands resources inform ac...

This article focuses on unemployed job-seekers’ attitudes towards entry-level jobs in three areas of the service sector – retail, hospitality and call-centre work. The article examines whether job-seekers are reluctant to pursue these opportunities, and provides an analysis of the motives of those ruling out service work. A range of potential barriers is discussed, including the extent to which...

Introduction: In any job, performing job tasks requires different psychological demands, physical demands and workload, which can lead to physical and psychological problems in the employee. Therefore, the aim of the current research was to predict the health (organizational stress, health complaints, exhaustion and fatigue) of employees from the psychological demands of the job, physical deman...

We set up a model with on?the?job search in which firms infrequently post vacancies for workers occasionally apply. The nests the standard job ladder and stock?flow models as special cases, while remaining analytically tractable easy to estimate from panel data sets. parameters structurally estimated on US are significantly different either restrictions imposed by or model. Imposing these under...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has surfaced as a transformative technology with the eventuality to reshape colourful aspects of mortal life, including pool and employment geography. As AI technologies continue advance fleetly, there's growing concern regarding implicit impact on job openings future work. This abstract points give an overview employment, agitating both challenges associated its in...