How the Perception of Control Influences Unemployed Job Search

By Andrew Meade McGee. 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Unobservable, but unimportant? The relevance of usually unobserved variables for the evaluation of labor market policies☆ (2017, background): “Several studies find a statistically significant effect of the locus of control on individual earnings (e.g. Andrisani, 1977; Heineck and Anger, 2010; Semykina and Linz, 2007) and job search strategies (e.g. Caliendo et al., 2014; McGee, 2015).”
Locus of control and the labor market (2015, unknown): “Finally, McGee and McGee (2011) provide experimental evidence that job search is linked to locus of control in the absence of information about the impact of search effort on job offers.”
Employability and Career Success: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Reality (2013, background): “Finally, in another sample of unemployed U.S. workers, McGee (2010) found that a one standard deviation increase in internal locus of control was associated with a 20% increase in time spent searching for work.”
Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies (2010, unknown): “First, McGee (2015) is able to directly analyze search efficiency. He concludes that internal job seekers are no better at converting time spent searching into contacts with employers or at converting contacts into offers than are more external searchers. Moreover, McGee and McGee (2011) provide exp”
Learning about job search: A field experiment with job seekers in Germany (2015, background): “6 in search intensities might also be related to personality factors, such as people’s tendency to consider life outcomes as mainly determined by external vs. internal factors (see Caliendo et al. 2015 as well as McGee 2015).”