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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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Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU : What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?
Pastore, Francesco - 2009
The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon … tool to abate youth long term unemployment to the more recent stress on the importance of increasing the human capital … education, to favour smoother school-to-work transitions. Apprenticeships schemes, fiscal incentives to hire the youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766736
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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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Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce
Knudsen, Eric I. - 2006
A growing proportion of the U.S. workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of research in economics, developmental psychology, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779731
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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Andersson, Fredrik - 2013
We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two states. Our substantive contributions center on impacts estimated non-experimentally using administrative data. These impacts compare WIA participants who do and do not receive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074901
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New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts : A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program
Heinrich, Carolyn - 2009
This paper presents nonexperimental net impact estimates for the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the primary federal job training program in the U.S, based on administrative data from 12 states, covering approximately 160,000 WIA participants and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153515
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Trainspotting : 'Good Jobs', Training and Skilled Immigration
Mountford, Andrew - 2019
While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital stock of the receiving economy, might it also reduce the number of 'good jobs', i.e. those with training, available to indigenous workers? We analyse this issue theoretically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867997
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Workforce Development as an Antipoverty Strategy : What do We Know? What Should We do?
Holzer, Harry J. - 2021
what we know about the cost-effectiveness of programs for adults and youth from the evaluation literature. I consider some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324893
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Escaping the Unemployment Trap : The Case of East Germany
Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages relative to productivity have fallen). We suggest that the longer people are unemployed, the greater is their cumulative likelihood of falling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324988
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Temporary Work as an Active Labor Market Policy : Evaluating an Innovative Program for Disadvantaged Youths
Ehlert, Christoph Richard - 2012
While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104360