Calendrier du 03 octobre 2017
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 03/10/2017 de 17:00 à 18:00
SEROR Marlon (University of Bristol)
Multi-candidate Political Competitions and the Industrial Organization of Politics
écrit avec Avner Seror, Thierry Verdier
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 03/10/2017 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BANERJEE Abhijit (MIT)
How important are matching frictions in the labor market? Experimental & non-experimental evidence from India
écrit avec Gaurav Chiplunkar
This paper provides evidence of substantial matching frictions in the labor market in India. In particular, placement officers in vocational training institutes have very little information about the job preferences of candidates they are trying to place in jobs. In the first part of this study, we adopt a number of methods to elicit genuine preferences of candidates over different types of jobs. In the second part, we find that providing placement officers with these preference information leads to a substantial improvement in matching candidates to jobs interviews and hence subsequent employment outcomes for up to six months after initial placement.