Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: Information Asymmetry in Job Search

经济学博士论文研究：求职中的信息不对称

• 批准号: 2117566
• 负责人: Sandra Black
• 金额: $ 2.49万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2117566&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Economics; Information

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Wage gaps across race and gender persist among equally educated individuals, and have been attributed in significant part to differences in behavior during job search. Economic theory suggests that access to information about the labor market influences behavior. If information differs across groups, either in quantity or quality, this can lead to differences in job choice. Across race and gender, unequal access to networks and mentoring has been shown to give rise to these information gaps. To test whether access to information contributes to different job search outcomes, the project will conduct an information intervention experiment to assess first whether students of different races and genders have differential information about the labor market. The project will further explore whether an information intervention could change their job search behavior and help bridge the gap in wages. The project will have potential policy implications in considering information intervention as a low-cost process for decreasing gender and racial wage gaps.The project will conduct and experiment that will center on college students in their senior year, who are about to enter the job search process. The treatment group will be provided with information about the starting salary distributions of students from prior years by major, along with reminders about deadlines for employment searches. The control group will only receive the deadline reminders. The project will then examine whether the treatment information changes job search behavior: in particular, the salary of the accepted job, the number and salary of jobs rejected, negotiation behavior, and valuation of non-wage amenities. To account for heterogeneity across demographic groups, stratified random assignment across race, gender, and major will be used to split participants into treatment and control. The results of the study will inform the understanding of both the effect of information on labor search behavior, as well as of the differential impact of information across demographic groups. The results will also help parameterize a labor search model with information asymmetry, where systematic informational differences lead to differences in the reservation wage. The model will allow for estimation of counterfactual scenarios focusing on the impact of narrowing information gaps across groups under heterogeneous labor market conditions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》（公法117-2）的全部或部分资助的。种族之间的工资差距和性别持续在受过同等教育的个人之间，并且在求职期间的行为差​​异很大程度上归因于行为的差异。经济理论表明，获取有关劳动力市场的信息会影响行为。如果信息在数量或质量方面都不同，这可能会导致工作选择差异。在整个种族和性别中，已经证明对网络和指导的不平等访问会导致这些信息差距。为了测试获取信息是否有助于不同的求职结果，该项目将进行信息干预实验，以评估不同种族和性别的学生是否对劳动力市场有不同的信息。该项目将进一步探讨信息干预是否可以改变其求职行为并帮助弥合工资差距。该项目将对信息干预作为减少性别和种族工资差距的低成本过程有潜在的政策影响。该项目将进行和实验，这将集中在高年级的大学生中，他们即将进入工作搜索过程。将为治疗小组提供有关少校从前几年开始的学生开始薪水分配的信息，并提醒人们有关就业搜索截止日期的信息。对照组只会收到截止日期提醒。然后，该项目将检查治疗信息是否改变了求职行为：特别是，被公认工作的薪水，拒绝工作的数量和工资，谈判行为和非工资便利设施的估值。为了说明人群群体之间的异质性，将使用种族，性别和主要的分层随机分配，以将参与者分为治疗和控制。该研究的结果将告知人们对信息对劳动搜索行为的影响以及信息跨人群群体的差异影响的理解。结果还将有助于使用信息不对称的劳动搜索模型参数化，在这种情况下，系统的信息差异会导致预订工资的差异。该模型将允许估算反事实场景，重点关注异质劳动力市场条件下各组的狭窄信息差距的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。