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Girum Abebe

    Ethiopian Development Research Institute

Girum Abebe is a researcher and the Coordinator for Micro and Sectoral Research Center at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). He obtained Ph.D in Development Economics from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Japan. His main research interests are the applications of field experiments and behavioral economics to study the constraints that face enterprises and job seekers in developing countries. He has been actively engaged in field experiment designs, particularly in the implementations and impact evaluations of business and management skills training to young entrepreneurs and the impact evaluation of job search assistance schemes to young unemployed job-seekers. He is currently working on the impact evaluation of an internship program for young aspiring entrepreneurs, on the exploration of spillover effects between foreign and local businesses as well as on links between productivity, wages, labor compliance and industrial relations in the manufacturing sector in Ethiopia.

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Related Projects

  • Can Temporary Financial Incentives for Female Industrial Workers Lead to Long-Term Retention and a Better Allocation of Talent?
  • Urban Density and Labour Markets
  • Assisting Job Search in Low-Employment Communities

Related Publications

  • GLM|LIC Policy Brief No. 22

    Anonymity or Distance?
  • G²LM|LIC Policy Brief No. 67

    Retention Incentives and Mental Health
  • GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 17

    Curse of Anonymity or Tyranny of Distance?
  • GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 34

    Anonymity or Distance?
  • G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 48

    Anonymity or Distance?
  • G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 49

    Matching Frictions and Distorted Beliefs: Evidence from a Job Fair Experiment

Published Articles

  • The Review of Economic Studies, 2020

    Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City

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