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The Series is operated by LISER, a Luxembourg public establishment (établissement public) registered with the Luxembourg Business Registers under number J57, with its registered office at 11, Porte des Sciences, 4366 Esch-sur-Alzette, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.  \nAny opinions expressed in this Series are solely those of the author(s) . LISER accepts no responsibility or liability for the content of the contributions published herein. LISER adheres to the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. Contributions published in this Series present preliminary work intended to foster academic debate. They may be revised, are not definitive, and should be cited accordingly. Copyright remains with the author(s) unless otherwise indicated.  \nIZA@LISER NETWORK ISSN: 2365-9793  \nInforming the Job Search: A Field Experiment in an Urban Labor Market*  \nAbstract  \nWe examine the impact of labor market information on beliefs, job search and employment outcomes of job seekers in urban India. Through a cluster-randomized intervention in Delhi, over 3000 men and women are randomized into a treatment group in which they are informed and assisted in accessing a job matching platform, supplemented by phone messages that deliver either non-personalized or personalized labor market information; or a control group in which neither assistance with the matching platform nor any phone messages is given. A year after intervention, men reduce overall job search while women’s search shifts to online modes in both treatment groups. Although there is no impact on overall employment, we find evidence of a marginal shift in occupational structure – away from casual jobs towards salaried work – along with higher earnings, for women in later months. These employment impacts are relatively stronger in the personalized messaging group. We highlight the role of (mis-)beliefs about the labor market and gendered information frictions in explaining our findings.  \nJEL classification  \nJ21, J28, J62, O15  \nKeywords  \njob search, digital platforms, employment, expectations, gender, youth  \nCorresponding author  \nFarzana Afridi  \n[fafridi@isid.ac.in](fafridi@isid.ac.in)  \n* This study is registered at AEA RCT Registry, ID 0012778. The paper has benefited from feedback from conference and seminar participants at AFE (University of Chicago), ACEGD (ISI Delhi), TCD-CEPH Seminar, IEA Conference (Belfast), SEED Development Workshop (University of Bath), and QUB Economics Seminar. Vikas Lilhare, Anant Singh, Rohan Regi Varghese and Shubham Singh provided excellent research assistance. We thank Gaurav Chiplunkar and Yogita Shamdasani for helpful discussions on study design. The authors acknowledge financial support from the Digital Platforms and WEE grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The usual disclaimers apply.  \n1 Introduction  \nJob seekers often lack full information about job opportunities due to informational frictions (Conlon et al. , 2018), which may engender mis-perceptions and mis-beliefs about labor market opportunities. Furthermore, limited networks and access to information sources can exacerbate informational frictions for some job seekers, affecting their job search and labor market outcomes (Cortés et al. , 2023) . However, there exists little research on what types of information on the labor market can reduce these frictions. In this paper, we conduct","cbCaioqNeW7vG1Qj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioqNeW7vG1Qj","pdf",6421526,79,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Informational frictions and mis-beliefs\n## Intervention design and information channels\n## Field-experiment setting and evaluation timeline\n## Baseline expectations and misperceptions","[{\"question\":\"What is the document’s main research question?\",\"answer\":\"How labor market information affects beliefs, job search behavior, and employment outcomes for job seekers in an urban setting in India.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the intervention implemented in Delhi?\",\"answer\":\"Clusters were assigned to receive in-person assistance to register on a job-matching platform plus phone messages either non-personalized or personalized, while a control group received neither assistance nor messages.\"},{\"question\":\"What were the key results after one year?\",\"answer\":\"Men reduced overall job search, while women shifted to online search modes in both treatment groups; overall employment showed no impact, but there was evidence of a marginal shift toward salaried work and higher earnings for women in later months, stronger under personalized messaging.\"}]","Informing the Job Search - A Field Experiment in an Urban Labor Market | PDF",1789749038,199]