TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dammert, Ana C.
AU  - Galdo, Jose C.
AU  - Galdo, Virgilio
        TI  - Integrating Mobile Phone Technologies into Labor-Market Intermediation: A Multi-Treatment Experimental Design
        PY  - 2015/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9012
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9012
        AB  - This study investigates the causal impacts of integrating mobile phone technologies into traditional public labor-market intermediation services on employment outcomes. By providing faster, cheaper and up-to-date information on job vacancies via SMS, mobile phone technologies might affect the rate at which offers arrive as well as the probability of receiving a job offer. We implement a social experiment with multiple treatments that allows us to investigate both the role of information channels (digital versus non-digital) and information sets (restricted [public] versus unrestricted [public/private]).
The results show positive and significant short-term effects on employment for public labor-market intermediation. While the impacts from traditional labor-market intermediation are not large enough to be statistically significant, the unrestricted digital treatment group shows statistically significant short-term employment effects. As for potential matching efficiency gains, the results suggest no statistically significant effects associated with either information channels or information sets.
        KW  - ICT
KW  - labor-market intermediation
KW  - mobile phones
KW  - field experiments
KW  - Peru
        ER  -