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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 … consistent with an overall increase in youth expectations about the future. The program also has a positive impact on non …
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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 …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a vocational training programme on the labour market outcomes of unemployed youth in … Latvia. The programme is part of the Youth Guarantee scheme for the period 2014-2020, the largest action launched by the … European Union to reduce youth unemployment rate and to support young people aged between 15 and 29 who are not in education …
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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...
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enrollment among disadvantaged, in-school youth in the Philippines. This experience leads to a 4.4 percentage point (79-percent … employment gains push youth out of school. Our results are most consistent with work experience serving as a signal of …-income youth …
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In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of displaced workers. This program, called "Conventions de conversion", was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job...
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We analyse the effect of active labour-market programmes on the hazard rate into regular employment for newly arrived immigrants using the timing-of-events duration model. We take account of language course participation and progression in destination country language skills. We use rich...
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We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life …
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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 …
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