- Abstract:
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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 ...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Review of Economic Studies Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2020-09-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-02-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-937X
- ISSN:
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0034-6527
- Pubs id:
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1088150
- Local pid:
- pubs:1088150
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright holder:
- Abebe et al.
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Review of Economic Studies Limited.
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Anonymity or distance? Job search and labour market exclusion in a growing African city
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