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• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Caria, Stefano; Franklin, Simon; Witte, Marc
• 署名单位: University of Warwick; University of London; Queen Mary University London; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/721655
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 887-922
• 关键词: job search; social networks; field experiment; insurance; TIES

摘要

We study how active labor market policies affect the exchange of information and support among job seekers. Leveraging a unique social network survey in Ethiopia, we find that a randomized job search assistance intervention reduces information sharing and support between treated job seekers and their active job search partners. Because of lower job search support, untreated individuals search less and, suggestively, have worse employment outcomes. These results are consistent with a model of networks where unemployed individuals form job search partnerships to exploit the complementarities of job search.