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This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program … trajectories of young people - and, to the best of our knowledge, is the first experimental long-term evaluation of a youth …
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This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y … Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market outcomes and on outcomes related to youth … consistent with an overall increase in youth expectations about the future. The program also has a positive impact on non …
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We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a vocational training programme on the labour market outcomes of unemployed youth in … Latvia. The programme is part of the Youth Guarantee scheme for the period 2014-2020, the largest action launched by the … European Union to reduce youth unemployment rate and to support young people aged between 15 and 29 who are not in education …
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constructed around expressive arts. Using a randomized assignment of favela youth into program and control groups, we look at the …
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counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within three months. The length of the waiting period …
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enrollment among disadvantaged, in-school youth in the Philippines. This experience leads to a 4.4 percentage point (79-percent … employment gains push youth out of school. Our results are most consistent with work experience serving as a signal of …-income youth. …
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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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Governments around the developing world face pressure to intervene actively to help jobseekers find employment. Two of the most common policies used are job training, based on the idea that many of those seeking jobs lack the skills employers want, and job search assistance, based on the...
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This evaluation study aims to assess the impact of PIPOL, an integrated program of active labor policies, on the employment integration of benefit recipients. To address the issue, we have resorted to a counterfactual approach with data from two main sources: the program administration and...
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