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This paper explores the "disposable" patterns of workforce utilization in Italy, well under way before the cyclical … which they leave the labor market altogether and are no longer observable in the official (administrative) data. Workforce … short employment spell (< 3 months), 10-year survival does not reach 50%. We show that the order of magnitude of workforce …
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Failure of participants to complete training programs is pervasive in existing active labor market programs both in developed and developing countries. The proportion of dropouts in prototypical programs ranges from 10 to 50 percent of all participants. From a policy perspective, it is of...
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This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market outcomes and on outcomes related to youth behavior and life style, expectations about the future and...
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This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual duration. Our results suggest that the potential endogeneity of exits seems to be only relevant in the...
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