Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia / Girum Abebe
Mitwirkende(r): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Reihen: World Bank E-Library ArchiveVerlag: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2017Beschreibung: 1 Online-Ressource (55 p)Andere physische Formen: Erscheint auch als: Job Fairs: Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia. Druck-Ausgabe Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2017DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8092Online-Ressourcen: Zusammenfassung: 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 fairsPPN: PPN: 1724866214Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBADieser Titel hat keine Exemplare