The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen
This paper evaluates a youth internship program in Yemen. The authors examine the demand for the program, and find an oversupply of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and a relative undersupply of graduates in marketing...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/25877902/demand-impact-youth-internships-evidence-randomized-experiment-yemen http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23756 |
| Summary: | This paper evaluates a youth internship
program in Yemen. The authors examine the demand for the
program, and find an oversupply of graduates in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics, and a relative
undersupply of graduates in marketing and business.
Conditional on the types of graduates firms were looking to
hire, applicants were then randomly chosen for the program.
Receiving an internship resulted in an almost doubling of
work experience in 2014, and a 73 percent increase in
income. A follow-up survey shows that internship recipients
had better employment outcomes than the control group in the
first five months after the program. |
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