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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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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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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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Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

Kvasnicka, Michael - 2008

employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access …Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our …

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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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Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio : A Review of the Evidence

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2018

This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known about the various factors that … have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall employment-to-population ratio between 1999 and 2018. Population … aging has had a large effect on the overall employment rate over this period, but within-age-group declines in employment …

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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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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …

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Discrimination and Worker Evaluation

Cavounidis, Costas - 2015

We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment …

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