Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia
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Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia. / Abebe, Girum; Caria, Stefano; Fafchamps, Marcel; Falco, Paolo; Franklin, Simon; Quinn, Simon Redmond; Shilpi, Forhad J.
2017.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia
AU - Abebe, Girum
AU - Caria, Stefano
AU - Fafchamps, Marcel
AU - Falco, Paolo
AU - Franklin, Simon
AU - Quinn, Simon Redmond
AU - Shilpi, Forhad J.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Labor Policies
KW - Rural Labor Markets
M3 - Working paper
BT - Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia
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