Digital Tools to Facilitate Job Search During the COVID-19 Pandemics

This project investigates how online job search assistance affects the labor market performance of unemployed workers during the COVID-19 crisis in Denmark. In a large-scale randomized controlled trial, the researchers exogenously vary the content of an online information dashboard on the central online platform of the Danish Public Employment Agency. Treatments differ in whether unemployed workers receive personalized information about the number of available vacancies for the occupations considered by the individual job seeker, information about alternative occupations that potentially are a "good fit" given the job seekers' background, or both. The study examines the effectiveness of the online job search assistance tool among workers who are unemployed during the crisis, and investigates the stability of employment relationships that were generated before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.