主讲人：翁茜

时间：2021年9月29日 14：00

地点：邵逸夫科学馆第五会议室；腾讯会议ID：491455216

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

主讲人简介：翁茜，瑞典哥德堡大学经济学博士，中国人民大学劳动人事学院副教授。主要研究领域为行为与实验经济学，聚焦于激励机制和劳动力市场研究。近年来，已在Journal of Labor Economic、Journal of Public Economic、China Economic Review等期刊上发表多篇论文。

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.