The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-Year Field Experiment in Uganda
通过追踪乌干达青年求职者六年的田野实验，研究了职业培训和就业匹配两种干预如何影响求职行为与长期就业结果。
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.