G2LM|LIC - Asymmetric Information on the Skills of Workers and Matching in the Labor Market
Data Set Description

The project studies how employers and job seekers respond to credible information on skills that are difficult to observe, and how this affects matching in the labor market. Whether certificates on workers’ non-cognitive skills are disclosed to both sides of the market during job interviews between young workers and small firms in Uganda are experimentally varied.
The certificates cause workers to increase their labor market expectations, while high-ability managers revise their assessments of the workers’ skills upwards. The reaction in terms of beliefs leads to an increase in positive assortative matching and to higher earnings for workers, conditional on employment.
Scope of Data Set
Time Periods: 2014 - 2017
Citation(s)
Researchers working with the “Asymmetric Information on the Skills of Workers and Matching in the Labor Market” are obligated to acknowledge the data base and its documentation within their publications, including the DOI, by using this reference.
Publication(s)
Restricted Access
Investigator(s):
- Bassi, Vittorio (University of Southern California)
- Nansamba, Aisha (BRAC NGO)
- Rasul, Imran (University College London)
Cross section survey data
Administrative data
Field Experiment
Access to the data is provided to non-for-profit research, replication and teaching purposes. The data is available from the Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC).
Please contact IDSC for any access requests.
Geographic Coverage:
UGANDA