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The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen

McKenzie, David J. - 2015

This paper evaluates a youth internship program in the Republic of Yemen that provided firms with a 50 percent subsidy to hire recent graduates of universities and vocational schools. The first round of the program took place in 2014 and required both firms and youth to apply for the program....

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Education and Criminal Behavior : Insights from an Expansion of Upper Secondary School

Aslund, Olof - 2015

We study the impact on criminal activity from a large scale Swedish reform of vocational upper secondary education, extending programs from two to three years and adding more general theoretical content. The reform directly concerns age groups where criminal activity is high and students who are...

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Comparing Real Wage Rates

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2012

A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living standards of workers, and also of the productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual...

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An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the Spanish Labour Market

Riach, Peter A.; Rich, Judith - 2021

In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty five Spanish towns. Discrimination against the older waiters, corresponded to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for...

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The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Labor Market in Neighboring Countries : Empirical Evidence from Jordan

Fakih, Ali - 2016

the steep influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan on the country's labor market since the onset of the conflict in Syria …, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey), according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Jordan and Lebanon are …) methodology is used to examine time series data from the most affected governorates in Jordan. The empirical results of Granger …

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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies

Klasen, Stephan - 2019

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

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Working Conditions, Transparency, and Compliance in Global Value Chains : Evidence from Better Work Jordan

Robertson, Raymond - 2019

This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment … available. The estimation employs data from Better Work Jordan that cover all garment-exporting factories over the 2008 …

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Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan

Groh, Matthew - 2014

Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized … experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tests the role …

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Discrimination, Narratives and Family History : An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children

Barron, Kai - 2020

Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …

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Migration Shocks and Housing : Short-Run Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan

Alhawarin, Ibrahim; Assaad, Ragui A.; Elsayed, Ahmed - 2021

. The identification comes from the regional variation in the large influx of Syrian refugees to Jordan in the wake of the …

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