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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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Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City

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Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal title

The Review of economic studies, 2021-05, Vol.88 (3 (320)), p.1279-1310

Language

English

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Oxford University Press

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Contents

We showthat 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 sho...

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Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1093_restud_rdaa057

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1093_restud_rdaa057

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ISSN

0034-6527

E-ISSN

1467-937X

DOI

10.1093/restud/rdaa057

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