Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia

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Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia. / Abebe, Girum; Caria, Stefano; Fafchamps, Marcel; Falco, Paolo; Franklin, Simon; Quinn, Simon Redmond; Shilpi, Forhad J.

2017.

Publikation: Working paper › Forskning

Harvard

Abebe, G, Caria, S, Fafchamps, M, Falco, P, Franklin, S, Quinn, SR & Shilpi, FJ 2017 'Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia'. <https://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/8092.html>

APA

Abebe, G., Caria, S., Fafchamps, M., Falco, P., Franklin, S., Quinn, S. R., & Shilpi, F. J. (2017). Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia. https://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/8092.html

Vancouver

Abebe G, Caria S, Fafchamps M, Falco P, Franklin S, Quinn SR o.a. Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia. 2017 jun. 1.

Author

Abebe, Girum ; Caria, Stefano ; Fafchamps, Marcel ; Falco, Paolo ; Franklin, Simon ; Quinn, Simon Redmond ; Shilpi, Forhad J. / Job fairs : matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia. 2017.

Bibtex

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