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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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An evaluation of the workforce investment act adult program in Minnesota : lessons from the financial crisis

Bendewald, Ellen; Maryns, Nicholas; Robertson, Raymond - 2016

Using matched administrative data, this paper estimates the program effects of Minnesota's WIA Title I‐B Adult program to make two contributions to the literature. First, this paper applies a wide range of non‐experimental approaches and generates similar estimates of program effects that...

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Job loss : bridging the research and policy discussion

Lynch, Lisa M. (contributor) - 2005

In this paper I discuss a structural problem facing the United States with respect to our policy responses in the context of trade and technological change and their impact on workers. Both trade and technological change have put enormous pressure on the U.S. economy to raise the skill level of...

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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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Does dual vocational education and training pay off?

Bentolila, Samuel; Cabrales, Antonio; Jansen, Marcel - 2023

This paper analyzes the causal impact of dual vocational education and training (VET) on the labor market insertion of youth. Using matched education and social security records, we estimate the causal impact of a major reform that introduced a new dual track, which combines firm- and...

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Returns to education in Australia 2001-2022

Leigh, Andrew - 2024

What are the economic returns to education in Australia? Using data from the 2018-2022 waves of the Household, Income … and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, and taking account of existing estimates of ability bias and social returns to …

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Overskilling dynamics and education pathways

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; Fok, Yin King - 2009

This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of overskilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is extensive overskilling in the labour market, and whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The...

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Investment in human capital during incarceration and employment prospects of prisoners

Giles, Margaret J.; Le, Anh Tram - 2009

2003 Survey of Prisoners in Western Australia, the decision of prisoners to invest in education/training during their …

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The wage premium of foreign education : new evidence from Australia

Chan, Gavin; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We … find substantially higher returns from human capital obtained in Australia and other OECD countries compared with non … immigrants from non-OECD countries are the ones who can gain the most from obtaining further education in Australia, and that …

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