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...
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2017/06/07
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政策研究报告
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WPS8092
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1
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2017/06/07
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Disclosed
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Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia
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job fair