youth employment, the Government of India has launched a number of skills training programs. This paper deals with … poor youth. Initially, the program leads to a 29 percentage point increase in the employment rate of the trained graduates …. However, two to six months after the training, the employment effect of the program drops to zero. A third of the placed …

participation, we provide inverse probability weighting and ordinary least squares estimates of the employment and earnings effects … market success. On average, there are only small positive employment effects and no gains in earnings even four years after …

treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average impact of training on employment is positive, but close to zero and … training we do find training to have had statistically significant effects on the quality of employment, and that the positive …

short-run treatment effects on a comprehensive set of outcomes including employment and earnings as well as measures of … personality traits and risk behavior. We find positive short-run employment and earnings impacts five months after the program …

first document how the excessive gap in employment protection between indefinite and temporary workers leads to large …