Argentina's Proempleo Experiment, conducted in 1998-2000, was designed to assess whether a wage subsidy and specialized training could assist the transition from workfare to regular work. Randomly sampled workfare participants in a welfare-dependent ...

The test score performance of a large sample of youth on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, cross-classified by schooling and race, was used to estimate the relative importance of current and past discrimination in explaining 1960 racial differentials in earnings. Our results indicate that,...