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

McKenzie, David ; Assaf, Nabila ; Cusolito, Ana Paula

Springer

关键词: INTERNSHIP;    ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAM;    RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT;    FRAGILE STATES;    YOUTH EMPLOYMENT;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40175-016-0048-8
RP-ID  :  136150

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

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.