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Anonymity or distance? Job search and labour market exclusion in a growing African city
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Abebe, Girum, Caria, Stefano, Falco, Paolo, Fafchamps, Marcel, Franklin, Simon and Quinn, Simon (2021) Anonymity or distance? Job search and labour market exclusion in a growing African city. Review of Economic Studies, 88 (3). pp. 1279-1310. doi:10.1093/restud/rdaa057 ISSN 0034-6527.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa057
Abstract
We show that helping young job-seekers signal their skills to employers generates large and persistent improvements in their labour market outcomes. We do this by comparing an intervention that improves the ability to signal skills (the ‘job application workshop’) to a transport subsidy treatment designed to reduce the cost of job search. In the short-run, both interventions have large positive effects on the probability of finding a formal job. The workshop also increases the probability of having a stable job with an open-ended contract. Four years later, the workshop significantly increases earnings, job satisfaction, and employment duration, but the effects of the transport subsidy have dissipated. Gains are concentrated on individuals who generally have worse labour market outcomes. Overall, our findings highlight that young people possess valuable skills that are unobservable to employers. Making these skills observable generates earnings gains that are far greater than the cost of the intervention.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Job hunting , Job hunting -- Africa, Labor market , Labor market -- Africa | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Review of Economic Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0034-6527 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 88 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1279-1310 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/restud/rdaa057 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Review of Economic Studies following peer review. The version of record Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn, Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City, The Review of Economic Studies, rdaa057, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa057 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 May 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 September 2022 | ||||||||
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