The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen

This paper evaluates a youth internship program in Yemen. We examine the demand for the program and find an oversupply of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and a relative undersupply of graduates in marketing and business. Conditional on the types of graduates firms were...

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Main Authors:	McKenzie, David, Assaf, Nabila, Cusolito, Ana Paula
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Springer 2019
Subjects:	INTERNSHIP ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAM RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT FRAGILE STATES YOUTH EMPLOYMENT STEM SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TRAINING ON-THE-JOB TRAINING SKILLS MISMATCH LABOR MARKET
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31376

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spelling	okr-10986-313762021-05-25T10:54:37Z The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen McKenzie, David Assaf, Nabila Cusolito, Ana Paula INTERNSHIP ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAM RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT FRAGILE STATES YOUTH EMPLOYMENT STEM SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TRAINING ON-THE-JOB TRAINING SKILLS MISMATCH LABOR MARKET This paper evaluates a youth internship program in Yemen. We examine the demand for the program and find an oversupply of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and a relative undersupply of graduates in marketing and business. Conditional on the types of graduates firms were looking to hire, applicants were then randomly chosen for the program. Receiving an internship resulted in an almost doubling of work experience in 2014 and a 73 % increase in income. A follow-up survey shows that internship recipients had better employment outcomes than the control group in the first 5 months after the program. 2019-03-12T18:41:46Z 2019-03-12T18:41:46Z 2016-01-18 Journal Article IZA Journal of Labor and Development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31376 CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 World Bank Springer Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Yemen, Republic of
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topic	INTERNSHIP ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAM RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT FRAGILE STATES YOUTH EMPLOYMENT STEM SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TRAINING ON-THE-JOB TRAINING SKILLS MISMATCH LABOR MARKET
spellingShingle	INTERNSHIP ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAM RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT FRAGILE STATES YOUTH EMPLOYMENT STEM SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TRAINING ON-THE-JOB TRAINING SKILLS MISMATCH LABOR MARKET McKenzie, David Assaf, Nabila Cusolito, Ana Paula The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen
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description	This paper evaluates a youth internship program in Yemen. We examine the demand for the program and find an oversupply of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and a relative undersupply of graduates in marketing and business. Conditional on the types of graduates firms were looking to hire, applicants were then randomly chosen for the program. Receiving an internship resulted in an almost doubling of work experience in 2014 and a 73 % increase in income. A follow-up survey shows that internship recipients had better employment outcomes than the control group in the first 5 months after the program.
format	Journal Article
author	McKenzie, David Assaf, Nabila Cusolito, Ana Paula
author_facet	McKenzie, David Assaf, Nabila Cusolito, Ana Paula
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title	The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen
title_short	The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen
title_full	The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen
title_fullStr	The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen
title_full_unstemmed	The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen
title_sort	demand for, and impact of, youth internships : evidence from a randomized experiment in yemen
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The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen

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