Job Fairs

• Tác giả: Girum Abebe
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 223.1 *Job
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2017
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 306859
• Chủ đề: 1. EXPECTATIONS; 2. JOB FAIRS; 3. LABOR MARKET; 4. SKILLS; 5. YOUTH EMPLOYMENT

Tóm tắt

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 fairs.