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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, soft skills and productivity : evidence from a field experiment
Prada, María F.; Rucci, Graciana; Urzua, Sergio - 2019
This paper examines a training intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among employees of a large Latin American retailer. The identification exploits an experimental design in the context of a difference-in-difference strategy. Using longitudinal information obtained...
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The causal impact of socio-emotional skills training on educational success
Sorrenti, Guiseppe; Zölitz, Ulf; Ribeaud, Denis; … - 2020
We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...
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Manufacturing growth and the lives of Bangladeshi women
Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
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The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers: evidence from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh
Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel - 2020
After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, both the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. These responses included a minimum wage increase, high profile but voluntary audits, and an...
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Globalisation and the gender earnings gap : evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys; Savchenko, … - 2018
This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...
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Employment booms and infant health : evidence from the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh
Vasishth, Mahima - 2024
In this paper, I estimate the inter-generational health impact of maternal employment opportunities using evidence from the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. This industry was exposed to a trade liberalization policy in 2005, which generated spatial and temporal variation in the...
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Gender and the effect of working hours on firm-sponsored training
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2015
Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive...
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Steering towards the high road: a study of human resource management in two Indian garment factories
Lake, Henrietta (contributor) - 2007
resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same … management ; labor productivity ; labor standards ; India ; garments …
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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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