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Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia : Impacts on Young Trainees and Their Relatives

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2015

We use administrative data and a randomization design to examine the long-term educational impacts of a large-scale vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Colombia on trainees and their relatives. Up to eleven years after randomization, trainees were more likely to enroll in...

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General Education vs. Vocational Training : Evidence from an Economy in Transition

Malamud, Ofer - 2010

This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which experienced major technological and institutional change during its transition from Communism to a market economy. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, we exploit a...

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Estimating the Effect of Training on Employment and Unemployment Durations : Evidence from Experimental Data

Ham, John C.; LaLonde, Robert John - 2021

Using data from a social experiment, we estimate the impact of training on the duration of employment and unemployment … analysis, simple comparisons between the average durations or the transition rates of treatments' and controls' employment and … unemployment spells lead to biased estimates of the effects of training. We present and implement several econometric approaches …

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Job Training Through Turmoil

Barrera, Felipe; Kugler, Adriana D.; Silliman, Mikko - 2022

We follow the labor market outcomes of applicants who were randomized into job training a year and a half before the pandemic through the subsequent economic turmoil that resulted from COVID-19. Despite persistently improved labor market outcomes of training participants prior to March 2020, we...

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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men

Autor, David H. - 2017

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

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When Work Moves : Job Suburbanization and Black Employment

Miller, Conrad - 2018

This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000 … across metropolitan areas, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates … relative to white employment rates. Evidence from nationally planned highway infrastructure corroborates a causal …

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Whom Do Employers Want? The Role of Recent Employment and Unemployment Status and Age

Farber, Henry S. - 2018

We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the … findings solidify an emerging consensus on the role of age and employment on callback. First, among applicants across a broad …

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Unemployment Insurance and Labor Force Transitions

Clark, Kim B.; Summers, Lawrence H. - 2021

the effects of unemployment insurance on measured and actual employment, unemployment and non-participation. The data are … effect of UI on unemployment duration and temporary layoffs. The results are rather inconclusive, but suggest the importance …

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The Added-Worker Effect : A Reappraisal

Lundberg, Shelly - 2021

states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … functions show that increased unemployment among married men has a sizeable short-run effect on both participation and …

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Labor Force Transitions and Unemployment

Clark, Kim B.; Summers, Lawrence Henry - 2021

. Likewise, most spells of employment end with labor force withdrawal rather than unemployment. Second, traditional estimates of …This paper challenges conventional views of unemployment. Its results suggest that failure to examine closely labor … force transitions has led to a misleading picture of unemployment and the way the labor market functions in general. There …

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