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The evidence is in how should youth employment programs in low-income countries be designed?
Fox, Louise; Kaul, Upaasna - 2018
Youth in many low-income countries are entering the labor force in unprecedented numbers, yet many struggle to secure … rewarding livelihoods. This paper outlines the economic development challenges that constrain youth's transition into employment … time for a fundamental reassessment of approaches for addressing youth employment and the youth transition in low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902848
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Can public works programs reduce youth crime? : evidence from Papua New Guinea’s urban youth employment project
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy; Naidoo, Darian; Newhouse, David Locke - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663510
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Who is deprived? Who feels deprived? : labor deprivation, youth and gender in Morocco
Serajuddin, Umar; Verme, Paolo - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580740
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The impact of an adolescent girls employment program : the EPAG project in Liberia
Adoho, Franck; Chakravarty, Shubha; Korkoyah, Dala T. <jun.> - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345616
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The role of training programs for youth employment in Nepal : impact evaluation report on the employment fund
Chakravarty, Shubha; Lundberg, Mattias K. A.; Nikolov, … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551935
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Demand-driven youth training programs : experimental evidence from Mongolia
Alzúa, María Laura; Batbekh, Soyolmaa; Batchuluun, … - 2020
The effectiveness of a demand-driven vocational-training program for disadvantaged youth in Ulaanbaatar, the capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240737
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The spillovers of employment guarantee programs on child labor and education
Li, Tianshu; Sekhri, Sheetal - 2020
Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228189
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Soft skills or hard cash? : the impact of training and wage subsidy programs on female youth employment in Jordan
Groh, Matthew; Krishnan, Nandini; McKenzie, David; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612224
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Once NEET, always NEET? : a synthetic panel approach to analyze the Moroccan labor market
Alfani, Federica; Clementi, Fabio; Fabiani, Michele; … - 2020
In many regions of the world, the persistent, and growing, proportion of young people who are currently not in employment, education, or training is of global concern. This is no less true of Morocco: about 30 percent of the Moroccan population between ages 15 and 24 are currently not in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241124
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The apprenticeship-to-work transition : experimental evidence from Ghana
Hardy, Morgan; Mbiti, Isaac M.; McCasland, Jamie; … - 2019
levels of youth unemployment in Ghana. The study exploits randomized access to the program to examine the short-run effects … of apprenticeship training on labor market outcomes. The results show that apprenticeships shift youth out of wage work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022375