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The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Ubfal, Diego; Arraiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether W.; … - 2019

A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear twelve months after the training. We argue that the main channel is increased adoption of recommended...

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Training funds and the incidence of training : the case of Mauritius

Kuku, Oluyemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Rojid, Sawkut; … - 2015

Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital intensive firms are the most likely to offer training unless they are...

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Skills training and employment outcomes in rural Bihar

Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2017

In a number of countries, youth unemployment is a pressing economic and political concern. In India, 54 percent of the … youth employment, the Government of India has launched a number of skills training programs. This paper deals with … participation in and the impact of one of these programs (DDUJKY) located in rural Bihar, one of India's poorest states. The …

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Ferreira Sequeda, Maria; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie; Grip, … - 2016

This paper provides more insight into the relevance of the assumption of human capital theory that the productivity of job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal learning on the job are related to employee skill...

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Barriers to skill acquisition : evidence from English training in India

Jain, Tarun; Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - 2016

field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …

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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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Employee training, wage dispersion and equality in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe (contributor); … - 2006

"We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the training (general or specific); who funds the training (employee or employer); and the skill...

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Does regional training supply determine employees' training participation?

Görlitz, Katja; Rzepka, Sylvi - 2014

Using data from the National Educational Panel Study of 2009/2010, this paper investigates the relationship between regional training supply and employees' training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local unemployment rate, the educational level, the population...

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Employee training and firm performance: evidence from ESF grant applications

Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

As work changes more quickly, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, supported by the European Social Fund, contrasting firms that received...

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Not for the profit, but for the training? : gender differences in training in the for-profit and non-profit sectors

Dostie, Benoît; Javdani, Mohsen - 2017

We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine gender differences in probability, duration, and intensity of firm-sponsored training. We find that women in the for-profit sector are less likely to receive classroom training, and receive shorter classroom training courses. However, we...

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