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The job fair produced minimal direct hiring (1 hire per 12 attending firms), but the temporary reduction in meeting costs corrected underlying misperceptions, driving a 26% increase in job board visits among jobseekers within 6 weeks and a 12 percentage point increase in professional vacancy advertising by firms (p < 0.01).
Interventions that improved small exporters' platform visibility and quality signaling to prospective international buyers successfully increased firm export sales by overcoming market search frictions.
Facilitating direct recruitment channels led to a over 10-fold increase in BPO employment among young women in treatment villages (control mean 0.4% vs treatment 5.0%, p < 0.01) despite job locations requiring relocation or long commutes.