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Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige through Randomized Experiments in Jordan

Groh, Matthew - 2014

Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tested the role of search and matching frictions by providing...

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Testing the importance of search frictions and matching through a randomized experiment in Jordan

Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David J.; Shammout, Nour; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-20

We test the role of search and matching frictions in explaining the high unemployment of tertiary-educated youth in Jordan through a randomized experiment. Firms and job candidates were provided with a job-matching service based on educational backgrounds and psychometric assessments. Although...

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Reducing information asymmetries in the youth labor market of Jordan with psychometrics and skill based tests

Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David J.; Vishwanath, Tara - In: 2014 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics …, (pp. 106-117). 2015

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Leveraging land to enable urban transformation : lessons from global experience

Lozano-Gracia, Nancy; Young, Cheryl; Lall, Somik V.; … - 2013

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Can matching grants promote exports? : evidence from Tunisia's FAMEX II programme

Gourdon, Julien; Marchat, Jean Michel; Sharma, Siddharth; … - In: Where to spend the next million? : applying impact …, (pp. 81-106). 2011

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Do wage subsidies provide a stepping-stone to employment for recent college graduates? : evidence from a randomized experiment in Jordan

Groh, Matthew; Krishnan, Nandini; McKenzie, David J.; … - In: The review of economics and statistics 98 (2016) 3, pp. 488-502

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Testing the importance of search frictions, matching, and reservation prestige through randomized experiments in Jordan

Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David J.; Shammout, Nour; … - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429914

Testing the importance of search frictions, matching, and reservation prestige through randomized experiments in Jordan

Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David J.; Shammout, Nour; … - 2014

Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tests the role of search and matching frictions by providing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412656

Soft skills or hard cash? : the impact of training and wage subsidy programs on female youth employment in Jordan

Groh, Matthew; Krishnan, Nandini; McKenzie, David; … - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612224

Uneven odds, unequal outcomes : inequality of opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa

Krishnan, Nandini; Ibarra, Gabriel Lara; Narayan, Ambar; … - 2016

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