Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
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. Th...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/823481496862668759/Job-fairs-matching-firms-and-workers-in-a-field-experiment-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27292 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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