Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia (English)

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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Abebe,Girum;

Caria,Stefano;

Fafchamps,Marcel;

Falco,Paolo;

Franklin,Simon David;

Quinn,Simon Redmond;

Shilpi,Forhad J.;
Document Date
2017/06/07
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8092
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Ethiopia,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2017/06/07
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia
Keywords
job fair

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Abebe,Girum; Caria,Stefano; Fafchamps,Marcel; Falco,Paolo; Franklin,Simon David; Quinn,Simon Redmond; Shilpi,Forhad J..

Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8092 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/823481496862668759

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