Screening and Signalling Non-Cognitive Skills: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

How employers and job seekers respond to credible information on skills that are difficult to observe, and how this affects matching in the labour market

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
3 January 2023
Country:
Uganda
Document Type:
Journal Article
Theme:
Economic Growth
First published:
1 October 2021
Authors:
Bassi, V. and Nansamba, A.

Abstract

We study how employers and job seekers respond to credible information on skills that are difficult to observe, and how this affects matching in the labour market. We experimentally vary whether certificates on workers바카라 사이트™ non-cognitive skills are disclosed to both sides of the market during job interviews between young workers and small firms in Uganda. The certificates cause workers to increase their labour market expectations, while high-ability managers revise their assessments of the workers바카라 사이트™ 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.

This research is part of the Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries programme

Citation

Bassi, V. and Nansamba, A. (2021). 바카라 사이트śScreening and Signalling Non-Cognitive Skills: Experimental Evidence from Uganda바카라 사이트ť. The Economic Journal, 132 (642): 471-511. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab071.

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