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The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed : Experimental Evidence from Turkey

Hirshleifer, Sarojini - 2017

A randomized experiment is used to evaluate a large-scale, active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low attrition enables precise estimation of treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average...

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Soft Skills or Hard Cash? The Impact of Training and Wage Subsidy Programs on Female Youth Employment in Jordan

Groh, Matthew - 2017

Throughout the Middle East, unemployment rates of educated youth have been persistently high and female labor force participation, low. This paper studies the impact of a randomized experiment in Jordan designed to assist female community college graduates find employment. One randomly chosen...

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Illicit Activity and Money Laundering from an Economic Growth Perspective : A Model and an Application to Colombia

Villa, Edgar - 2017

econometric estimates of the volume of laundered assets in the Colombian economy. In the model, the licit sector operates in a … to the economy but only redistributes wealth (for example robbery, kidnapping, and fraud). The paper provides a series of … laundered assets in the Colombian economy in the period 1985 to 2013. The paper assembles a data set whose key components are …

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Informality in the Process of Development and Growth

Loayza, Norman - 2017

legal and regulatory systems. It is widespread in the majority of developing countries--in a typical developing economy, the … capital and labor in a modern economy. Second, it opens the possibility of labor migration from a rudimentary economy with an …

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Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes, and offers a large number of other positive benefits to the sending communities and countries. However, there are also concerns about potential costs of...

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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines

Beam, Emily - 2017

Significant income gains from migrating from poorer to richer countries have motivated unilateral (source-country) policies facilitating labor emigration. However, their effectiveness is unknown. The authors conducted a large-scale randomized experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of...

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What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World?

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. This paper undertakes a critical review of these studies...

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The Economic Consequences Of"Brain Drain"Of the Best and Brightest : Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries

Gibson, John - 2017

Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits, in addition to costs, from skilled emigration, the evidence base on...

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The Effects of Cash Transfers on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

Baird, Sarah - 2018

The basic economic model of labor supply has a very clear prediction of what should be expected when an adult receives an unexpected cash windfall: they should work less and earn less. This intuition underlies concerns that many types of cash transfers, ranging from government benefits to...

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Can Government Intervention Make Firms More Investment-Ready? A Randomized Experiment in the Western Balkans

Cusolito, Ana P. - 2018

Many innovative start-ups and small and medium-size enterprises have good ideas, but do not have these ideas fine-tuned to the stage where they can attract outside funding. Investment readiness programs attempt to help firms to become ready to attract and accept outside equity funding through a...

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