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Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Attanasio, Orazio - 2009
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158515
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Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program
Ibarraran, Pablo - 2015
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program … trajectories of young people – and, to the best of our knowledge, is the first experimental long-term evaluation of a youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016359
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Program Quality and Treatment Completion for Youth Training Programs
Dammert, Ana - 2013
treatment completion for youth participants in Peru …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081817
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2023
We use a regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348578
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Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults : An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
Hernaes, Oeystein - 2018
The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926704
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Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Michaelides, Marios - 2020
We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI … that policymakers should require job counseling for youth UI recipients during recessions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831978
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State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment
Frisvold, David E. - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917096
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Ethnic Minority Youths in the Labour Markets in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Niknami, Susan - 2019
controlling for youth background characteristics, first- and second-generation immigrant youths have significantly higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870208
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Decision to Emigrate Amongst the Youth in Lebanon
Dibeh, Ghassan - 2017
This paper studies the determinants of youth emigration decisions, which is considered to be one of the main causes of … people aged 15 to 29 from the year 2016. The aim of the paper is to identify the profile of youth's propensity to emigrate … from Lebanon. The empirical results indicate that youth from non-wealthy backgrounds living in smaller dwellings have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964999
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Early Cannabis Use and School to Work Transition of Young Men
Williams, Jenny - 2017
We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965004