When companies are looking to hire people, they scan through the résumés they get in the mail and their first step is to throw out all the résumés of people who've been unemployed for a long time. This is research based on pretty well-designed experiments that control for other variables beyond long-term unemployment.
Rand Ghayad is able to show that employers have a strong bias (ten to twenty times less likely to contact) against candidates with more than six months of unemployment, even if their resume is virtually identical to a candidate who has been unemployed for a shorter period of time.
Real Workforce reintegration
It seems that the government would benefit by subsidizing companies to provide short term work (1 month every 6 months or whatever duration and structure to alter the hiring probabilities) to keep unemployed people employable. It needs to be crafted so that the industry views the work as valid experience. This would be an alternative to straight UI and retraining.
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Rand Ghayad is able to show that employers have a strong bias (ten to twenty times less likely to contact) against candidates with more than six months of unemployment, even if their resume is virtually identical to a candidate who has been unemployed for a shorter period of time.
Real Workforce reintegration
It seems that the government would benefit by subsidizing companies to provide short term work (1 month every 6 months or whatever duration and structure to alter the hiring probabilities) to keep unemployed people employable. It needs to be crafted so that the industry views the work as valid experience. This would be an alternative to straight UI and retraining.
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