Anonymity or distance? Job search and labour market exclusion in a growing African city
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 de...
Main Authors: | Abebe, G, Caria, S, Fafchamps, M, Falco, P, Franklin, S, Quinn, S |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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