Research

Work in Progress

• The more, the better? Online job search advice and job seekers’ reemployment prospects. Joint work with Robert Mahlstedt and Alexander Sebald. AEA RCT Registry, June 2024.

  • • Abstract: We study how online job search assistance affects the job search behavior and labor market outcomes of unemployed workers. We conduct a country-wide field experiment on the dashboard of an online job search platform in Denmark. The dashboard provides job seekers with varying forms of job search assistance, including information about the occupational or geographical dimension of search, as well as the use of different search methods. We link the data from our field experiment with comprehensive register data on job seekers’ labor market outcomes and click-by-click data on their online job search behavior. We examine the impact of concurrently offering diverse forms of advice on job seekers’ decision-making and assess whether it enhances or distorts their search behavior. 

• Sorting and Skills: Gender Differences in Online Job Search Behavior. Joint work with Steffen Altmann and Alexander Sebald.

• Vacancy Visibility and Hiring Success. Joint work with Steffen Altmann, Alexander Sebald and Malte Jacob Rattenborg.

• Job Search---Evidence from High-Frequency Data. Joint work with Steffen Altmann, Alexander Sebald and Malte Jacob Rattenborg.

Policy Work

• Harding, M., D. Paturot and H. Simon (2022), "Taxation of part-time work in the OECD", OECD Taxation Working Papers, No. 57, OECD Publishing, Paris.

• OECD (2021), "Special feature: Consumption tax revenues under COVID-19: lessons from the 2008 global financial crisis" in Revenue Statistics 2020, OECD Publishing, Paris. Joint work with Michelle Harding.

  • • Media Coverage: Platform for Collaboration on Tax

• Simon, H. and M. Harding (2020), "What drives consumption tax revenues?: Disentangling policy and macroeconomic drivers", OECD Taxation Working Papers, No. 47, OECD Publishing, Paris.

• Harding, M., G. Perez-Navarro and H. Simon (2020), "In Tax, Gender Blind is not Gender Neutral: why tax policy responses to COVID-19 must consider women", ECOSCOPE Blogpost (oecdecoscope.blog), Published on June 1, 2020.

  • • Media Coverage: TaxChat! on Gender Issues in Taxation; Tax Notes