Article Gold Open Access 2016

The demand for, and impact of, youth internships: evidence from a randomized experiment in Yemen

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Mckenzie, David J.
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Assaf, Nabila
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Cusolito, Ana Paula
IZA Journal of Labor and Development
Journal · Vol. 5 · Issue 1 · Art. 1
Abstract

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. JEL codes: O12, O15, J08, J16 © 2016, McKenzie et al.

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Internship Active labor market program Fragile state Randomized experiment

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The World Bank, USA, Washington, D.C., United States
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