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

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  • Ricardo Santos
  • Sam Jones
  • Gimelgo Xirinda

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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.

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  • Ricardo Santos & Sam Jones & Gimelgo Xirinda, 2024. "Informed job entry: Does labour market information speed job-taking in Mozambique?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2024-16, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2024-16
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    School-to-Work; Labour; Information; Randomized controlled trial;
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