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), allowing for a more accurate measure of formal employment. It also measures whether socioemotional skills of beneficiaries … improved with program participation. The evaluation finds a high long term positive impact of Projoven on formal employment. It … also finds certain heterogeneity of program impacts across subpopulations. Impacts on formal employment vary depending on …
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findings document significant impacts on the formality of employment, particularly for men, and impacts for both men and women … and growing over time. There are no impacts on average employment, which is consistent with the low unemployment in …
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This paper evaluates if the excitement about school-based financial education is warranted. First, relying on recent experimental evidence, the paper takes stock of the impact of financial education programs aimed at reaching children and youth. Second, it complements existing studies by...
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Labor market institutions shape the return to workers’ skills. They define the incentives of firms and workers to invest in general and specific skills, affecting the returns to experience and tenure. This paper presents an empirical assessment of this hypothesis. We take advantage of rich...
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greater detail, I also find that this association tends to be the product of faster wage growth due to job changes rather than … faster wage growth experienced while on a particular job. This result is consistent with the idea that cities enhance worker …
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) for both male and female graduates. On the other hand, unfavourable employment conditions at the time of entry into …
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-savings" effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts … positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. -- Employment …
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