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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 …
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labyrinth of obstacles. While Public Employment Services employ Active Labor Market Policies, their effectiveness for this group … remains uncertain. This study introduces the Employment Readiness Indicator Questionnaire (ERIQ), transcending traditional … employment categories by assessing individuals' progress toward employment and measuring employment readiness for those labeled …
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more intensively treated tracks experienced a decline in the probability of employment during the year following high …
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This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural undocumented inter-provincial labor migration during China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is...
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Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary school level. Despite the dominance of programs offering specific training, long-term relative...
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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 …
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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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formal employment. The Programa de Apoyo a la Inserción Laboral (PAIL) revamped training program design in the country by … employment history and characteristics of all formal workers in Paraguay - with an empirical strategy based on extensions of … employment for women and men increases by 11 percentage points. Even two years after participating, the program has a lasting …
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In 2005, displaced workers in Finland with at least three years of work history were given the option to enroll in a Re-employment … Program. Participants met with a caseworker at the beginning of their unemployment and drafted an employment plan. In return … duration in the short run or employment in the longer run. The effect on training participation was particularly strong for men …
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We analyze a German labor market program that subsidizes skill-upgrading occupational training for workers employed in small and medium sized enterprises. This WeGebAU program reimburses training costs but take-up has been low. In an experimental setup, we mailed 10,000 brochures to potentially...
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