寻找好工作: 来自乌干达一项六年实地实验的证据
The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-Year Field Experiment in Uganda
Journal of Labor Economics · 2023 · [{"name": "Oriana Bandiera", "affiliation": ["London School of Economics and Political Science"]}, {"name": "Vittorio Bassi", "affiliation": ["University of Southern California", "California Southern University"]}, {"name": "Robin Burgess", "affiliation": ["London School of Economics and Political Science"]}, {"name": "Imran Rasul", "affiliation": ["University College London"]}, {"name": "Munshi Sulaiman", "affiliation": ["BRAC University"]}, {"name": "Anna Vitali", "affiliation": ["New York University"]}]
中文摘要
当今非洲有4.2亿年轻人，其中只有三分之一拥有一份正规带薪工作。我们研究了两种常见的劳动力市场干预——职业培训与匹配——如何影响年轻工人的求职行为。为此，我们通过一项在乌干达主要城市开展的田野实验，对年轻求职者进行了为期6年的追踪。职业培训放大了求职者最初的乐观情绪，使他们更密集地求职，并转向高质量企业。加入匹配服务则产生相反的效果，这可能是由于回电率较低所致。这些差异长期影响着劳动力市场结果。
Abstract
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.