Screening and Matching with Psychometric Assessments: Randomized Experiments 2011-2013
Jordan, 2011 - 2013
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JOR_2011-2013_SMPAIE_v01_M
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Matthew Groh, David McKenzie, Nour Shammout, Tara Vishwanath
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Reasons Jordanian youth reluctant to take low prestige jobs - other (q34b_en)
Data file: D_LargeFirmSurvey_2013
Overview
Valid:
17
Type:
Discrete
Start:
881
End:
986
Width:
106
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Relative to youth in other countries, Jordanian youth are more reluctant to take low paid, less skilled jobs like being a waiter, telemarketer, or retail sales worker while waiting to find a job that meets their skills and qualifications. What do you think the main reason for this is?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| culture | 1 |
5.9%
|
|
| graduates do not know and understand the needs of labor market | 1 |
5.9%
|
|
| graduates interested to work in their specilization to achieve their aims | 1 |
5.9%
|
|
| irresponsible | 1 |
5.9%
|
|
| low salaries in such jobs | 1 |
5.9%
|
|
| most of their employees from undergaduate and after garduation they search for jobs in their specilization | 1 |
5.9%
|
|
| shortage in job vacancies in the labor market pushed graduates to accept any work | 5 |
29.4%
|
|
| the negative attitude of community for craft work jobs | 1 |
5.9%
|
|
| there are a lot graduates want to work in any job | 1 |
5.9%
|
|
| there are no vacancies matching with graduates wants | 1 |
5.9%
|
|
| those jobs do not pay a lot and do not achieving their ambition | 1 |
5.9%
|
|
| wokring in other domain not in graduates specialization will not achieve their aims | 1 |
5.9%
|
|
| working in such jobs decrease the probability to find jobs in their specialization | 1 |
5.9%
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.