Location, Search Costs and Youth Unemployment
Experimental Evidence from Transport Subsidies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9709874 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Franklin (0000-0002-9859-8105, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue | 614 |
| Pages | 2353-2379 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12509 |
| OpenAlex | W2614883608 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 35 |
Do high search costs affect the labour market outcomes of jobseekers living far away from jobs? I randomly assign transport subsidies to unemployed youth in urban Ethiopia. Treated respondents increase job search intensity and are more likely to find good, permanent, jobs. Subsidies also induce a short‐term reduction in temporary work. I use a high‐frequency phone call survey to track the trajectory of search behaviour over time to show that the subsidies significantly increased job search intensity and the use of formal search methods. The evidence suggests that cash constraints cause young people to give up looking for good jobs too early
Affect (linguistics · Business · Cash · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Market economy · Phone · Seekers · Subsidy · Term (time · Unemployment · Work (physics · Finance · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |