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Impact of COVID-19 crisis on rural youth : evidence from a panel survey and an experiment

Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Imbert, Clément - 2021

difference between men and women: while many male workers took up informal employment, most female workers dropped out of the …

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An impact assessment of ESF training courses for unemployed in the province of Bolzano

Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022

recipients are indeed recent migrants, refugees, and women. By using different matching algorithms, this group was made as … to nihil. The effect is particularly sizeable and statistically significant for women, migrants, and the highly educated … women and migrants. By providing them with basic skills, including linguistic and technical professional skills, increased …

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The economic implications of training for firm performance

Martins, Pedro S. - 2022

This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...

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Did a successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic come at a cost? : impacts of the outbreak on employment outcomes in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low mortality rate of 35 deaths to date (out of a population of approximately 100 million) and currently has no community transmission. We offer the first study that examines the...

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Going beyond LATE : bounding average treatment effects of job corps training

Chen, Xuan; Flores, Carlos; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2017

We derive nonparametric sharp bounds on average treatment effects with an instrumental variable (IV) and use them to evaluate the effectiveness of the Job Corps training program for disadvantaged youth. We focus on the population average treatment effect (ATE) and the average treatment effect on...

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Why guarantee employment? : evidence from a large Indian public-works program

Zimmermann, Laura - 2020

Most countries around the world implement some form of a safety net program for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs. But they could also improve workers' welfare by allowing them to take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This...

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Labor market policy and subjective well-being during the Great Recession

Morgan, Robson; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019

Average subjective well-being decreased in Europe during the Great Recession, primarily among people with less than a college education and people younger than retirement age. However, some countries fared better than others depending on their labor market policies. More generous unemployment...

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Employment protection and firm-provided training : quasi-experimental evidence from a labour market reform

Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2019

In 2012 a labour market reform, known as Fornero Law, substantially reduced firing restrictions for firms with more than 15 employees in Italy. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above the cut-off before and after the reform...

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The unprotecting effects of employment protection : the impact of the 2001 labor reform in Peru

Jaramillo Baanante, Miguel - 2019

According to the National Household Survey (ENAHO), approximately three out of four employment relationships within the formal sector of the Peruvian economy are based on temporary contracts. This percentage is larger than that of any OECD country and also considerably larger to that of any...

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Evaluation of language training programs in Luxembourg using principal stratification

Bia, Michela; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Mercatanti, Andrea - 2018

In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the unemployed. We analyze the effects of a language training program on the re-employment probability...

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