Ongoing Projects
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Improving Job Matching Among Youth [Slides] (draft coming soon)
with Rebecca Dizon-Ross and Benjamin Feigenberg
Abstract: Do inaccurate expectations of job seekers about their competitiveness contribute to poor job matching in developing countries? We utilize the largest online job portal in the Middle East and North Africa region to evaluate the effect of an intervention providing information about own competitiveness to job applicants. Providing information about the relative fit of an applicant's background for a particular job causes job seekers to apply for jobs that are better matches given their background. The effects of information are the largest among entry-level workers with higher levels of education, who generally face the highest unemployment rates in the region. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that changes over time in demand for skills in the job market may lead to inaccurate expectations that hinder labor market matching. Improving the efficiency of online job search may be particularly welfare-enhancing in the Middle East and North Africa region given that the young, highly-educated subpopulation that faces the greatest labor market hurdles also has the highest level of internet connectedness.
Assimilation of Marriage Migrants: Evidence from South Korea (preliminary results available upon request)
Abstract: This paper studies economic assimilation of female marriage migrant using a rich dataset on more than 70,000 marriage migrants in Korea, one of the largest bride hosting country. Consistent with the previous literature on the role of intermarriage on assimilation, marriage migrants catch up with their native counterparts relatively well in terms of earnings and labor hours. The marriage migrants catch up monthly earnings of native women after 10 years of migration. Overall, conditional on education, it is hard to find evidence of discrimination against marriage migrants. In contrast, intra-household decision-making power cannot be caught up even after 15 years of migration. In particular, in terms of decision-making on daily expenditures, only 40% of marriage migrants who spent more than 15 years in South Korea made the decisions themselves, whereas more than 60% of native women made decisions themselves. The results show that migrant women can be particularly vulnerable within the households even when they perform well in the labor market.
Gender Wage Gap and Consumption Patterns: Evidence from Scanner Data
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