The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-Year Field Experiment in Uganda

• 成果类型: Article; Early Access
• 署名作者: Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; Rasul, Imran; Sulaiman, Munshi; Vitali, Anna
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Southern California; University of London; University College London; Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee BRAC; BRAC University; New York University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/728429
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: unemployment; INFORMATION; confidence; EMPLOYMENT; duration; seekers

摘要

There are 420 million young people in Africa today, and only one in three has a regular salaried job. We study how two common labor market interventions-vocational training and matching-affect the job search behavior of young workers. We do so by means of a field experiment tracking young job seekers for 6 years in Uganda's main cities. Vocational training amplifies the job seekers' initial optimism, leading them to search more intensively and toward high-quality firms. Adding matching has the opposite effect, plausibly because of low callback rates. These differences affect labor market outcomes in the long run.