TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
A1  - Uhlendorff, Arne
T1  - Locus of control and job search strategies
JF  - The review of economics and statistics
N2  - Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. We present an alternative model that assumes that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of her search effort on the job arrival. These beliefs depend in part on an individual's locus of control. We estimate the impact of locus of control on job search behavior using a data set of newly unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical predictions, we find evidence that individuals with an internal locus of control search more and that individuals who believe that their future outcomes are determined by external factors have lower reservation wages.
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00459
SN  - 0034-6535
SN  - 1530-9142
VL  - 97
IS  - 1
SP  - 88
EP  - 103
PB  - MIT Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
A1  - Hennecke, Juliane
A1  - Uhlendorff, Arne
T1  - Locus of control and internal migration
JF  - Regional science and urban economics
N2  - We model migration across domestic labor markets (internal migration) as the outcome of a job search process in which job seekers form subjective beliefs about the return search effort that are related to their locus of control. Job seekers with an internal locus of control are predicted to search across larger geographic areas and migrate more frequently as a result. We empirically test the relationship between locus of control and the propensity to migrate using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We find that not only do individuals with an internal locus of control express more willingness to migrate, they do in fact also migrate more often.
KW  - Locus of control
KW  - Internal migration
KW  - Mobility
KW  - Job search
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2019.103468
SN  - 0166-0462
SN  - 1879-2308
VL  - 79
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -