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Belot, M., Kircher, P. and Muller, P. (2026). Do the Long-term Unemployed Benefit from Automated Occupational Advice during Online Job Search? Economic Journal, 136(673):184--206.

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In a randomised field experiment, we provide suggestions about suitable occupations to long-term unemployed job seekers. The suggestions are automatically generated, integrated in an online job search platform and fed into actual search queries. Effects on {\textquoteleft}reaching a cumulative earnings threshold{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}finding a stable job{\textquoteright} are positive, large and are more pronounced for those who are longer unemployed. Treated individuals include more occupations in their search and find more jobs in recommended occupations.