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substantial turmoil in the region since 2010, including the onset of the Syrian conflict and the influx of refugees into Jordan …This paper introduces the 2016 wave of the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey (JLMPS). It is an essential reference for … sources of data on Jordan to demonstrate the sample's representativeness. The data provide an important opportunity for a …
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"The Syrian Civil War has displaced 60 percent of the country's population. Six million refugees live in neighboring … Syrians in Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. The authors used multiple methods: interviews with stakeholders, focus groups with … overall economic climate and strategies for preserving and improving social cohesion of refugees and host communities are …
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We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...
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Firms often use social networks to find workers, limiting the pool of potential applicants. We conduct a field experiment subsidizing firms' formal vacancy posting. The subsidies increase non-network employee search and shift vacancies towards high-skilled positions. Post-treatment, firms...
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