Tsegay Tekleselassie

Refereed Journals and book chapters

• McKay, A., & Tekleselassie, T. G. (2018). Tall paper walls: The political economy of visas and cross‐border travel. The World Economy, 41(11), 2914-2933. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12686
•  Reilly, B., & Tekleselassie, T. G. (2018). The role of the United States Visa Waiver Program on cross-border travel. Applied Economics Letters, 25(1), 61-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2017.1293782
• Ethiopia Productivity Report 2020 with Mulu Gebreeyesus and Kidanemariam Hailu (The Policy Studies Institute (Ethiopia) and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Japan) https://psi.org.et/ETproductivityreport_20200212.pdf
• Macroeconomic Outlook, Structural Change and Policy Options in Ethiopia: Achievements, Aspirations, and Prospects in State of the Ethiopian Economy 2020/21, Ethiopian Economic Association ISBN 978-99944-54-81-5 https://eea-et.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SEE-Book-2020_2021.pdf
• Ethiopia Case Study (with John Page, Nzinga Brousard, Tadele Ferede, and Hansa Reda) in Hino, H., & Ranis, G. (Eds.), Youth and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Working But Poor (pp. 163-231). Routledge (2014) https://www.routledge.com/Youth-and-Employment-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Working-but-Poor/Hino-Ranis/p/book/9780367868260
  • The chapter on Ethiopia is available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203798935-6/ethiopia-nzinga-broussard-john-page-tsegay-gebrekidan-tekleselassie-tadele-ferede-hansa-teklay-reda

SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS (Field Experiment-based) 

• “Formalized Employee Search and Labor Demand” (with Lukas Hensel and Marc Witte) (older versions is available as an IZA Discussion paper https://docs.iza.org/dp14839.pdf)
• Vacancy Information and Applicant Selection (with Lukas Hensel, Marc Witte, and Maria Balgova) https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/9993
• Demand for Feedback and Job Search (with Lukas Hensel, Ingo Isphording, Jonas Radbruch, and Marc Witte) https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/9698
  • Abstract: In a world of incomplete information, individuals make decisions based on beliefs about their own ability. One important determinant in the formation of beliefs about one’s ability is comparisons to others. This study’s aims are twofold: i) understanding the individual determinants of the demand for relative feedback as well as ii) understanding the effects of receiving individual feedback about one’s own performance on job search.
• Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Work Permits on Refugees and Host Communities in Ethiopia (Gharad Bryan, Christian Meyer, and Sarah Winton)
  • Funded by IGC and J-PAL/IPA’s Displaced Livelihoods Initiative (DLI)

WORKING PAPERS

•  “The potential of industries without smokestacks to address unemployment” Brookings AGI Working Paper 41 (2021), (African Growth Institute at the Brookings) https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-potential-of-industries-without-smokestacks-to-address-unemployment-an-ethiopia-case-study/
•  “Formalized Employee Search and Labor Demand” IZA Discussion Paper, 14839 (2021) (with Lukas Hensel (Peking university) and Marc Witte (Institute of Labor Economics, IZA) https://docs.iza.org/dp14839.pdf
• “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Household Welfare in Ethiopia: Evidence from a Microsimulation Exercise”, PEP Working Paper, 2023-03, Partnership for Economic Policy (with Araar, A.; Hiluf Abay, M. and Abay, K) available at https://portal.pep-net.org/document/download/38128
• The state as an enabler of private sector development in Ethiopia The cases of tax and financial sector policy (2022). International Growth Center (IGC), Final report ETH-2155, London (with Biniam Bedasso and Habtamu Legas, available at https://www.theigc.org/sites/default/files/2023-10/Bedasso%20et%20al%20Final%20report%20September%202022.pdf
• “The State, Determinants, and Consequences of Skills Mismatch in the Ethiopian Labour Market” EDRI Working Paper, 021/2018 (with Berhe Mekonnen) https://psi.gov.et/index.php/working-papers?download=54:the-state-determinants-and-consequences-of-skills-mismatch-in-the-ethiopian-labour-market
•  “Youth Unemployment: Ethiopia Country Study” (with Nzinga Brousard), IGC Working Paper, 12/0592, August, 2012 available at https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Broussar-Tekleselassie-2012-Working-Paper1.pdf