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Experimental evidence on the long term impacts of a youth training program
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Shady, … - 2015
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program … trajectories of young people – and, to the best of our knowledge, is the first experimental long-term evaluation of a youth …Dieses Papier untersucht die langfristigen Arbeitsmarkteffekte einer Bildungsmaßnahme für benachteiligte Jugendliche …
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Making intense skills training work at scale : evidence on business and labor market outcomes in Tanzania
Calderone, Margherita; Fiala, Nathan; Melyoki, Lemayon … - 2022
Improving youth labor market outcomes is a primary concern for countries around the world. We conduct a randomized … controlled trial in Tanzania on an intense gender-sensitive skills training program that worked with over 53,000 youth in the …
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Effects of skills training on employment and livelihood outcomes : a randomized controlled trial with young women in Ghana
Frohnweiler, Sarah; Adongo, Charles A.; Beber, Bernd; … - 2024
We use a randomized controlled trial to examine the short- and mid-term impacts of a best-practice training program on (non-)employment outcomes in Ghana. Overall the program did not affect core labor market outcomes at the extensive (employment) and intensive (hours of work, income) margin, but...
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Employment effects of skills trainings in Sub-Saharan Africa : a systematic review of recent randomized controlled trials
Beber, Bernd; Lakemann, Tabea; Schnars, Regina; Lay, Jann - 2024
This study provides a comprehensive systematic review of recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the employment effects of skills training programs in sub-Saharan Africa, a region where such interventions are a key element of development assistance. The review focuses on studies...
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The pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to voucher-financed training
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015
This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program "Bildungsprämie". The estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in training, but did not do so because of a random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519112
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Local employer competition and training of workers
Rzepka, Sylvi; Tamm, Marcus - 2013
Die neue Weiterbildungsliteratur zeigt auf, dass Arbeitgeber in monopsonistisch geprägten Märkten bereit sind, nicht nur die Kosten für firmenspezifische, sondern auch für allgemeine Weiterbildung zu tragen, wenn das Risiko, dass Mitarbeiter abgeworben werden, gering ist. Dies bedeutet, dass...
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Analyzing further training participation rates across waves in the NEPS data
Rzepka, Sylvi - 2016
The spell-based nature of the National Educational Panel Study poses some challenges for analyzing training participation rates across waves. Raw training participation rates of each wave using courses compiled in the SpCourses data set and in the SpEmp data set differ by up to 75 percent across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558127
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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation
Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478496
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Does regional training supply determine employees’ training participation?
Görlitz, Katja; Rzepka, Sylvi - 2014
Using data from the National Educational Panel Study of 2009/2010, this paper investigates the relationship between regional training supply and employees’ training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local unemployment rate, the educational level, the population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342378
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Returns to formal, non-formal and informal training for workers at risk of automation
Zeyer-Gliozzo, Birgit - 2020
The automation of work tasks due to technological change increases the pressure on employees whose workplaces consist largely of such activities. Further training is an important way of adapting skills and enabling the performance of tasks that cannot be automated and are required in modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242649