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Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2009

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered...

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Pathways from School to Work in the Developing World

Manacorda, Marco - 2015

This paper uses micro data from the ILO-STWT surveys to provide novel evidence on the duration, end point and determinants of the transition from school to work in a sample of 23 low and middle-income countries around the world. The negative effects of low levels of human capital and high levels...

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Innovation, Productivity, and Training

Dostie, Benoit - 2015

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …

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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries : A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies Through Business Apps Training : A Study of Small Firms

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

The lack of awareness of digital services and outcomes is a concern in business environments since small firms need to improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements....

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Sometimes it Works! The Effect of a Reform of the Short Vocational Track on School-to-Work Transition

Comi, Simona; Grasseni, Mara; Origo, Federica - 2022

This paper studies the impact on the length of school-to-work transition of a reform that extended from two to three years the short vocational track in Italy in the early 2000s. In the empirical analysis we use the Two Way Fixed Effect methodology to estimate the impact of the reform,...

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Sources of Wage Growth

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022

This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers...

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Migration, Education and Work Opportunities

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam - 2017

I study individual location, education and work decisions in a dynamic life-cycle model in a developing country. I estimate the model exploiting panel data on migrants and stayers in Burkina Faso, and cross-sectional data on permanent emigrants. Individuals self-select into migration and...

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Skills Training and Employment Outcomes in Rural Bihar

Chakravorty, Bhaskar - 2017

In a number of countries, youth unemployment is a pressing economic and political concern. In India, 54 percent of the country's population of 1.21 billion is below the age of 25 and faces a high rate of (disguised) unemployment. To augment youth employment, the Government of India has launched...

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