Bob Emploi News Today

A body of recent work argues that people focus too much on the stereotypical occupation for a field of study when both choosing what to study, and then when looking for jobs – suggesting the need for policy interventions that help encourage/steer people towards considering looking beyond jobs that they were specifically trained for.

A large literature documents the positive effects of experiments aiming to alleviate the informational and behavioural challenges jobseekers face. In contrast, this column evaluates the impact of an online platform for jobseekers in France and finds no impact on time spent looking for a job, search scope, or self-reported wellbeing. The results also show no effect on any