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

David McKenzie, Nabila Assaf and Ana Paula Cusolito

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.

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	McKenzie, David J. ; Assaf, Nabila ; Cusolito, Ana Paula
Subject:	Internship \| Active labor market program \| Randomized experiment \| Fragile state \| Praktikum \| Jemen \| Yemen \| Arbeitsmarktpolitik \| Labour market policy \| Lohnsubvention \| Wage subsidy \| Experiment \| Junge Arbeitskräfte \| Young workers \| Absolventen \| Graduates \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Berufsbildende Schule \| Vocational school

Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1186/s40175-016-0048-8 [DOI] hdl:10419/152420 [Handle]
Classification:	O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration ; J08 - Labor Economics Policies ; J16 - Economics of Gender
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10011431652