| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22409 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22409 |
| Curse of Anonymity or Tyranny of Distance? The Impacts of Job-Search Support in Urban Ethiopia | |
| Girum Abebe; Stefano Caria; Marcel Fafchamps; Paolo Falco; Simon Franklin; Simon Quinn | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-07-18 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We conduct a randomized evaluation of two job-search support programs for urban youth in Ethiopia. One group of treated respondents receives a subsidy to cover the transport costs of job search. Another group participates in a job application workshop where their skills are certified and they are given orientation on how to make effective job applications. The two interventions are designed to lower spatial and informational barriers to employment. We find that both treatments significantly improve the quality of jobs that young jobseekers obtain. Impacts are concentrated among women and the least educated. Using rich high-frequency data from a phone survey, we are able to explore the mechanisms underlying the results; we show that while the transport subsidy increases both the intensity and the efficacy of job search, the job application workshop mainly operates through an increase in search efficacy. Both interventions mitigate the adverse effects of spatial constraints on employment outcomes, and the job application workshop alleviates informational asymmetries by helping workers to signal their ability. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22409 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580083 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Girum Abebe,Stefano Caria,Marcel Fafchamps,et al. Curse of Anonymity or Tyranny of Distance? The Impacts of Job-Search Support in Urban Ethiopia. 2016. |
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