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Curse of Anonymity or Tyranny of Distance? The Impacts of Job-Search Support in Urban Ethiopia
Abebe, Girum - 2016
We conduct a randomized evaluation of two job-search support programs for urban youth in Ethiopia. One group of treated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456268
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Family Effects in Youth Employment
Rees, Albert E. - 1979
The authors begin with the hypothesis that parental contacts play a major role in finding jobs for youth. This … hypothesis is tested with a model of youth employment that includes characteristics of other family members in addition to a …'s ability to assist the youth in finding a job, including occupation, industry and education. The effects of such variables are …
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State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment
Frisvold, David E. - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment
Crépon, Bruno - 2012
This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...
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Training, Wages, and Sample Selection : Estimating Sharp Bounds on Treatment Effects
Lee, David S. - 2005
This paper empirically assesses the wage effects of the Job Corps program, one of the largest federally-funded job training programs in the United States. Even with the aid of a randomized experiment, the impact of a training program on wages is difficult to study because of sample selection, a...
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Living Up to Expectations : How Job Training Made Women Better Off and Men Worse Off
Acevedo, Paloma - 2017
of a youth training program in the Dominican Republic. Program applicants were randomly assigned to one of 3 modalities …
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The Labor Market Impacts of Youth Training in the Dominican Republic : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Card, David - 2007
. Between 2001 and 2005 the government of the Dominican Republic operated a subsidized training program for low-income youth in …
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Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain
García-Pérez, J. Ignacio - 2016
By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However …
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The Effects of Youth Employment : Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries
Gelber, Alexander - 2014
Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like … Youth Employment Program (SYEP), the largest summer youth employment program in the U.S., by merging SYEP administrative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457856
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Employed and Unemployed Job Search : A Comparison of Choices and Outcomes among Youth
Holzer, Harry J. - 1986
This paper presents evidence that young unemployed job seekers choose higher levels of search effort (as measured by numbers of methods used and time spent per method) and lower relative reservation wages than do comparable employed seekers. The unemployed also have higher probabilities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477215