The Great Recession has renewed interest in unemployment insurance (UI) programs
around the world. At the same time, there have been important advances in both theory and …

Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor
market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have …

Building upon extensive research into modern British society, this book traces out trends in
social mobility and their relation to educational inequalities, with surprising results. Contrary …

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries
were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently …

Employability is defined as the capacity to gain and retain formal employment, or find new
employment if necessary. Reasons for unemployment are often attributed to economic …

This paper uses job seekers' elicited beliefs about job finding to disentangle the sources of
the decline in job-finding rates by duration of unemployment. We document that beliefs have …

This study unveils the cognitive mechanism that locus of control (LOC) dimensions (internal
control, chance control, and control by powerful others) predict intention to reuse mobile …

The research in this article is focused on formal performance appraisals (PA), one of the
most important human resource management practices in firms. In detail, the study analyzes …

This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their
decisions to exercise regularly, eat well, drink moderately, and avoid tobacco. Locus of …

In this paper we analyze the importance of individuals' locus of control for their health and
healthcare use. We estimate the direct effects of locus of control. We also examine whether …