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1 Online-Ressource (55 p)
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World Bank E-Library Archive
Content:
Do matching frictions affect youth employment in developing countries? This paper studies a randomized controlled trial of job fairs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The job fairs match firms with a representative sample of young, educated job-seekers. The meetings at the fairs create very few jobs: one for approximately 10 firms that attended. The paper explores reasons for this, and finds significant evidence for mismatched expectations: about wages, about firms' requirements, and the average quality of job-seekers. There is evidence of learning and updating of beliefs in the aftermath of the fair. This changes behavior: both workers and firms invest more in formal job search after the fairs
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Abebe, Girum Job Fairs: Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2017
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-8092
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