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This paper analyzes gender differences in the Chilean labor market, formally addressing the selection of individuals into schooling levels and its impact on gender gaps. The paper utilizes a new and rich data set containing information on labor market outcomes, schooling attainment and schooling...
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We analyze the relationship between education and employment in Suriname, using data from a 2007 IDB household survey … (representative nationally and at the level of three macro areas: Urban Coast, Rural Coast and Interior). We find that education …, junior secondary, senior secondary and tertiary education increase the probability of employment by 12%, 19%, 86% and 84 …
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El desempleo juvenil, especialmente cuando se encuentra vinculado a situaciones de pobreza y de exclusión social, es uno de los problemas más importantes de nuestro mundo globalizado. Pero el desempleo juvenil - particularmente en los grupos más pobres de la población - presenta otra...
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Collaborating with the Private Sector: A Case Study of an entra 21 project in Brazil, which presents the factors that enabled an NGO in Salvador, Brazil, the Instituto de ospitalidade, to successfully engage the private sector in its youth employment initiative. Engaging the business community...
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This meta-study, conducted by Javier Lasida and Ernesto Rodríguez, is based on six external evaluations conducted in 2005 of entra 21 projects in El Salvador, Peru, Paraguay, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Bolivia.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655795
El desempleo juvenil, especialmente cuando se encuentra vinculado a situaciones de pobreza y de exclusión social, es uno de los problemas más importantes de nuestro mundo globalizado. Pero el desempleo juvenil - particularmente en los grupos más pobres de la población - presenta otra...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009194054
Collaborating with the Private Sector: A Case Study of an entra 21 project in Brazil, which presents the factors that enabled an NGO in Salvador, Brazil, the Instituto de ospitalidade, to successfully engage the private sector in its youth employment initiative. Engaging the business community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198760
This meta-study, conducted by Javier Lasida and Ernesto Rodríguez, is based on six external evaluations conducted in 2005 of entra 21 projects in El Salvador, Peru, Paraguay, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Bolivia.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009199267
This book uses micro-level data for 18 Latin American countries to examine the choices adolescents make in three areas of behavior: their time allocation toward school and work, their sexual behavior and fertility, and their adoption of adult roles as they marry or cohabitate. Analyzing these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895446
This paper considers the effects of trade unions on the education sector in Argentina and the channels of union … class days). Based on estimates of education production functions both in this paper and elsewhere, we expect this to …, education budget and teachers' salaries). Reviewing these results, we conclude that the impact of unions on students …
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