This study explores the impact of a light-touch job-facilitation intervention that supported young female job seekers during the application process for factory work in a newly constructed industrial park in Ethiopia. Using data from a panel of 687 job seekers and randomized access to the support intervention, the study finds that treated applicants are more likely to be employed and have higher earnings and savings eight months after baseline, although...
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2024/04/03
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2025/02/05
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Do Factory Jobs Improve Welfare? : Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
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Girum Abebe Tefera; Niklas Buehren; Markus Goldstein.
Do Factory Jobs Improve Welfare? : Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099713102052535682