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040			_aMaCbNBER _beng _cMaCbNBER
100	1		_aBandiera, Oriana. _95598
245	1	4	_aThe Search for Good Jobs: _bEvidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda / _cOriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman, Anna Vitali.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2023.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w31570
500			_aAugust 2023.
520	3		_aThere are 420 million young people in Africa today. Understanding how youth search for jobs and what affects their ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance. We do so using a field experiment tracking young job seekers for six years in Uganda's main cities. We examine how two standard labor market interventions impact their search for good jobs: vocational training, vocational training combined with matching youth to firms, and matching only. Training is offered in sectors with high quality firms. The matching intervention assigns workers for interviews with such firms. At baseline, unskilled youth are optimistic about their job prospects, especially over the job offer arrival rate from high quality firms. Those offered vocational training become even more optimistic, search more intensively and direct their search towards high quality firms. However, youth additionally offered matching become discouraged because call back rates from firm owners are far lower than their prior. As a result, they search less intensively and direct their search towards lower quality firms. These divergent expectations and search behaviors have persistent impacts: vocational trainees without match offers achieve greater labor market success, largely because they end up employed at higher quality firms than youth additionally offered matching. Our analysis highlights the foundational but separate roles of skills and expectations in job search, how interventions cause youth to become optimistic or discouraged, and how this matters for long run sorting and individual labor market outcomes.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538			_aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aUnemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search _2jelc
650		7	_aUnemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search _2jelc
084			_aJ64 _2jelc
690		7	_aMicroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development _2jelc
650		7	_aMicroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development _2jelc
084			_aO12 _2jelc
700	1		_aBassi, Vittorio.
700	1		_aBurgess, Robin. _97050
700	1		_aRasul, Imran. _919155
700	1		_aSulaiman, Munshi.
700	1		_aVitali, Anna.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w31570.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w31570
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w31570
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