Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City
Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City
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DOI：
10.1093/restud/rdaa057
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发表时间：
2021-05-01
影响因子：
5.8
通讯作者：
Quinn, Simon
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作者：
Abebe, Girum;Caria, A. Stefano;Quinn, Simon
我们发现，帮助年轻求职者向雇主展示他们的技能，可以在劳动力市场上产生巨大而持久的改善。我们这样做的干预措施，提高信号技能（“求职工作坊”），旨在减少求职成本的交通补贴待遇进行比较。从短期来看，这两种干预措施对找到正式工作的可能性都有很大的积极影响。讲习班还增加了获得一份无限期合同的稳定工作的可能性。四年后，工作坊显着增加收入，工作满意度和就业时间，但交通补贴的影响已经消失。收益集中在劳动力市场结果通常较差的个人身上。总的来说，我们的研究结果强调，年轻人拥有雇主无法观察到的宝贵技能。使这些技能可被观察到所产生的收益远远大于干预的成本。
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.