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Outcome mechanisms for improved employment and earnings through screened job training: evidence from an RCT
Baird, Matthew; Engberg, John Barker; Gutierrez, Italo A. - 2021
This study fills a gap in the literature on the outcome mechanisms in which successful training programs improve employment and earnings, such as raises on the job or longer job duration. The city of New Orleans implemented a job training program as an RCT for low-income workers. Individuals in...
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Trainspotting : "good jobs", training and skilled immigration
Mountford, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2019
While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital stock of the receiving economy, might it also reduce the number of 'good jobs', i.e. those with training, available to indigenous workers? We analyse this issue theoretically...
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The role of trainee selection in the effectiveness of vocational training : evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Nepal
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Hasan, Syed; Sharma, Uttam - 2023
Based on a randomized controlled trial conducted on extremely poor youths in Nepal, we report the impact of a vocational training program that offered long-duration training combined with incentives for trainers tied to trainees' success. Furthermore, to mimic the practices in the field, a...
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Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs : a market-level randomized experiment in Kenya
McKenzie, David J.; Puerto, Susana - 2017
A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which randomizes business training at the market level, and then...
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Open labor markets and firms' substitution between training apprentices and hiring workers
Aepli, Manuel; Kuhn, Andreas - 2019
In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for firms, we hypothesize that (easier) access to cross-border workers will lead some employers to...
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The impact of migration on productivity and native-born workers' training
Campo, Francesco; Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2018
We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the lines suggested by Bianchi, Buonanno and Pinotti (2012). Our results suggest that immigration has a positive and significant impact (in both the statistical sense and more...
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Train drain? : access to foreign workers and firms' provision of training
Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2023
Does better access to foreign workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the European Union affected the number of apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit that the...
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Oligopsony, institutions and the efficiency of general training
Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Gylfi Zoega - 2002
In oligopsonistic labour markets, firms have some market power, and a wedge is created between wages and marginal product. When oligopsonistic firms' production technology requires generally trained workers, firms may therefore receive part of the returns to general training and be willing to...
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The investment in job training : why are SMEs lagging so much behind?
Almeida, Rita; Aterido, Reyes - 2010
investment in job training than larger firms. Therefore, our findings call for caution when designing pro-SME policies fostering …
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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016
, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK … turnover, and a decline in closure probabilities, over the period 2011-2014. The findings suggest SME investment in off …
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