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

Data Set Description

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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.

Date Created: 2022-05-12

Scope of Data Set

Subject Terms: ABILITY EVALUATION, BUSINESSES, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, EMOTIONAL MATURITY, EMPLOYERS, INFORMAL ECONOMY, INTERPERSONAL TRUST, JOB HUNTING, LABOUR MARKET, LABOUR POLICY, MOTIVATION, PERSONALITY TRAITS, RECRUITMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, WAGES, YOUTH EMPLOYMENT, YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT, EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS, COGNITIVE SKILLS

Time Periods: 2014 - 2017

Citation(s)

G2LM|LIC - Asymmetric Information on the Skills of Workers and Matching in the Labor Market. Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC). Version 1.0. doi:10.15185/glmlic.071.1

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Investigator(s):
  1. Bassi, Vittorio (University of Southern California)
  2. Nansamba, Aisha (BRAC NGO)
  3. Rasul, Imran (University College London)
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Cross section survey data
Administrative data
Field Experiment

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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