ERIC Number: ED573567
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Oct
Pages: 22
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The Demand For, and Impact Of, Youth Internships: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen. Policy Research Working Paper 7463
McKenzie, David; Assaf, Nabila; Cusolito, Ana Paula
World Bank
This paper evaluates a youth internship program in the Republic of Yemen that provided firms with a 50 percent subsidy to hire recent graduates of universities and vocational schools. The first round of the program took place in 2014 and required both firms and youth to apply for the program. The paper examines the demand for such a program, and finds that in the context of an economy facing substantial political and economic uncertainty, it appears there is 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 as interns, applicants were then randomly chosen for the program. Receiving an internship resulted in an almost doubling of work experience in 2014, and a 73 percent increase in income during this period compared with the control group. A short-term follow-up survey conducted just as civil conflict was breaking out shows that internship recipients had better employment outcomes than the control group in the first five months after the program ended. Appended are: (1) Timeline; and (2) Pooled Estimates.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Internship Programs, Randomized Controlled Trials, College Graduates, Vocational Schools, STEM Education, Education Work Relationship, Work Experience, Employment Potential, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Comparative Analysis, Supply and Demand, Data Collection, Surveys
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Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: World Bank
Identifiers - Location: Yemen
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