Job Fairs
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.
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Working Paper biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017-06
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| 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 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/27292 |
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