Informed job entry: Does labour market information speed job-taking in Mozambique?

Ricardo Santos, Sam Jones and Gimelgo Xirinda

No wp-2024-16, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: High youth unemployment rates and long school-to-work transition times pose a threat to low-income countries' sustainable growth prospects. Using a randomized control trial experiment conducted in Mozambique, we find strong evidence that providing information on wages and unemployment reduces the time that university graduate job-seekers take to become employed, with different levels of efficacy depending on the type of information provided.

Keywords: School-to-Work; Labour; Information; Randomized controlled trial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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