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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda

Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

years in Uganda's main cities. We examine how two standard labor market interventions impact their search for good jobs …. Our analysis highlights the foundational but separate roles of skills and expectations in job search, how interventions …

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Labor Markets and Evaluations of Vocational Training Programs in the Public High Schools - Toward a Framework for Analysis

Gustman, Alan L. - 1980

A simplified model is constructed to analyze the role played by vocational training programs In high schools. The model assumes that there are two kinds of educational programs in high schools, vocational and general. It also assumes that there are two types of jobs for high school graduates....

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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program : Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

Heckman, James J. - 2003

This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...

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New Evidence on Workplace Education

Krueger, Alan - 1994

This paper presents an analysis of the impact of a workplace education program that was administered by a community college at two companies. One of the companies we study is in the manufacturing sector and the other is in the service sector. The analysis relies on longitudinal administrative...

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Choosing Among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods for Estimating the Impact of Social Programs : The Case of Manpower Training

Heckman, James J. - 1989

The recent literature on evaluating manpower training programs demonstrates that alternative nonexperimental estimators of the same program produce a array of estimates of program impact. These findings have led to the call for experiments to be used to perform credible program evaluations....

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Is Occupational Licensing a Barrier to Interstate Migration?

Johnson, Janna E. - 2017

Occupational licensure, one of the most significant labor market regulations in the United States, may restrict the interstate movement of workers. We analyze the interstate migration of 22 licensed occupations. Using an empirical strategy that controls for unobservable characteristics that...

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Employment and Training Programs

Barnow, Burt S. - 2015

This chapter considers means-tested employment and training programs in the United States. We focus in particular on large, means-tested federal programs, including the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), its successor the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), that program's recent replacement, the...

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The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes : an Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables

Böckerman, Petri - 2016

The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper contributes to the literature by using a novel instrument:...

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Job Training Through Turmoil

Barrera, Felipe; Kugler, Adriana D.; Silliman, Mikko I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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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Economic Reforms and Labor Markets : Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile

Edwards, Sebastian - 2000

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

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