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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...

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Training vouchers and labor market outcomes in Chile

Kaplan, David Scott; Novella, Rafael; Rucci, Graciana; … - 2015

education. The voucher program also improves employment duration and mobility across economic sectors. …

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Impact evaluation of the job youth training program Projoven

Díaz, Juan José; Rosas, David - 2016

evaluations of the program, this one has several advantages. This is the first experimental impact evaluation of Projoven, and … also the first to measure impacts over a longer period: almost three years after training. Additionally, the evaluation … improved with program participation. The evaluation finds a high long term positive impact of Projoven on formal employment. It …

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Experimental evidence on the long term impacts of a youth training program

Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Rosas … - 2015

trajectories of young people - and, it is one of the first experimental long-term evaluation of a youth training program outside …

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Labor market search, informality and schooling investments

Bobba, Matteo; Flabbi, Luca; Levy, Santiago - 2018

This paper develops a search and matching model where firms and workers are allowed to form matches (jobs) that can be formal or informal. Workers optimally choose the level of schooling acquired before entering the labor market and whether to search for a job as unemployed or as self-employed....

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Female labor force participation, labor market dynamic, and growth

Bustelo, Monserrat; Flabbi, Luca; Piras, Claudia; … - 2019

The labor force participation of women is lower than the labor force participation of men. This empirical regularity is particularly acute in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In terms of labor market productivity and growth potential, these lower participation rates constitute a reserve of...

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Labor market and macroeconomic dynamics in Latin America amid COVID : the role of digital adoption policies

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Nuguer, Victoria - 2022

We study how policies that facilitate firm digital adoption shape the labor market and economic recovery from COVID-19 in a search and matching framework with firm entry and exit where salaried firms can adopt digital technologies and the labor market and firm structure embodies key features of...

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The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile

Doerr, Annabelle; Novella, Rafael - 2020

Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle income countries. We report medium and long-term impacts of a job training program for vulnerable workers in Chile on labor market and skill outcomes using experimental and...

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Skills or a degree? : the rise of skills-based hiring for AI and green jobs

Ehlinger, Eugenia Gonzalez; Stephany, Fabian - 2023

For emerging professions, such as jobs in the fi eld of artifi cial intelligence (AI) or sustainability (green), labour supply does not meet industry demand. In this scenario of labour shortages, our work aims to understand whether employers have started focusing on individual skills rather than...

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Does Active Labour Market Policy Reduce Unemployment when Search is Endogenous?

Filges, Trine; Larsen, Birthe - 2000

We analyse the effects active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have on unemployment in a union wage-setting framework when search is endogenous. We assume that a union president, elected by majority voting determines the wage. We analyse the case where ALMPs increase match efficiency of the...

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