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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Main Authors:	Abebe, Girum, Caria, Stefano, Fafchamps, Marcel, Falco, Paolo, Franklin, Simon, Quinn, Simon, Shilpi, Forhad
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	YOUTH EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET SKILLS JOB FAIRS EXPECTATIONS
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

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spelling	okr-10986-272922021-06-08T14:42:47Z Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia Abebe, Girum Caria, Stefano Fafchamps, Marcel Falco, Paolo Franklin, Simon Quinn, Simon Shilpi, Forhad YOUTH EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET SKILLS JOB FAIRS EXPECTATIONS 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. 2017-06-21T16:55:18Z 2017-06-21T16:55:18Z 2017-06 Working Paper 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 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8092 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Ethiopia
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Abebe, Girum Caria, Stefano Fafchamps, Marcel Falco, Paolo Franklin, Simon Quinn, Simon Shilpi, Forhad
author_facet	Abebe, Girum Caria, Stefano Fafchamps, Marcel Falco, Paolo Franklin, Simon Quinn, Simon Shilpi, Forhad
author_sort	Abebe, Girum
title	Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
title_short	Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
title_full	Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
title_fullStr	Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed	Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
title_sort	job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in ethiopia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	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
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Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

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