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A firm of one's own : experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice

Brudevold-Newman, Andrew; Honorati, Maddalena; Jakiela, … - 2017

We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second...

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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics : experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...

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What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?

McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

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. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...

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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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Job training and job search assistance policies in developing countries

Carranza, Eliana; McKenzie, David J. - 2023

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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Small enterprises' digital competencies and financial performance

Drydakis, Nick - 2024

remain competitive and thrive. The present study examines how a business applications training, aiming to boost small …, Cyprus, and the United Kingdom. Longitudinal data were collected between 2021 and 2023. The study revealed a positive … study indicates that training that boosts enterprises' digital competencies could facilitate their ability to adapt to …

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Heterogeneous returns to active labour market programs for indigenous populations

Feir, Donna; Foley, Kelly; Jones, Maggie - 2022

This paper studies the impact of active labour market programs for institutionally distinct Indigenous populations in Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS). Within Indigenous population groups, we...

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Social comparison in the workplace : evidence from a field experiment

Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - 2011

We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and received the same performance - independent hourly wage....

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Retaining through training : even for older workers

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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Determinants of further training : evidence for Germany

Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - 2010

Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance and development of further training in private sector firms. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual and job-based determinants of its incidence. We also show changes over time during a 20 year...

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