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Abstract
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Before
Unemployment has been a persistent issue in Egypt, particularly among women. This study aims to explore the role of parental pressure on the labor market outcomes of young adults, with a specific focus on how gender dynamics influence these outcomes. The study will involve conducting a census in the target governorates. In each village, the data collection team will begin by gathering information on available jobs within the village, district, and governorate. Based on the data collected during interviews, enumerators will offer jobs to job seekers that match their interests, qualifications, and ability to work within and outside the villages. The study investigates the impact of parental pressure on the labor market outcomes of young adults in Egypt with a focus on the differences in effects based on gender and parental role.
This design will help estimate the impact of parental involvement on youth labor market outcomes, with particular attention to gender differences in parental pressure. The involvement of parents and jobs will be randomized between the different randomized groups over a sample of more than 8000 job seekers in Egypt
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Employment programs deliver job information to individual jobseekers, although employment decisions are often made within households. We study both margins in two separately randomized experiments covering 11,781 unemployed youth in rural Upper Egypt: what concrete, verified, tailored job information does on its own, and whether the household configuration in which the same information is delivered changes what youth do with it. Information moves behavior sharply. It raises the probability of taking a concrete step toward employment by 16.1 percentage points in the first experiment and 11.2 in the second, against control rates near a third, and men and women respond alike despite very different prior work histories. It produces no statistically detectable employment gain within seven to eight weeks. Conditional on the same information, parental co-presence has little detectable effect for sons. For daughters, father and mother co-presence generate short-run increases of about five percentage points in action on the offered opportunities; the two estimates are statistically indistinguishable, and their estimated trajectories subsequently diverge. Involving both parents has no detectable effect. Information appears sufficient to move youth from awareness to action but not to carry that action into employment over this horizon.
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