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Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence Among Welfare Participants in Argentina

Galasso, Emanuela - 2016

paper evaluates the short run effects of one possible exit strategy, programs that promote self-employment, in Argentina. We …

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Social Protection in a Crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes Y Jefas

Galasso, Emanuela - 2017

The authors assess the impact of Argentina's main social policy response to the severe economic crisis of 2002. The …

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The Impact of Private Sector Internship and Training on Urban Youth in Kenya

Honorati, Maddalena - 2017

This study uses a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of the training and internship program piloted in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu counties by the Kenya Private Sector Alliance and the Government of Kenya with support from the World Bank?s Kenya Youth Empowerment Project. The program...

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Is Workfare Cost-Effective Against Poverty in a Poor Labor-Surplus Economy?

Murgai, Rinku - 2017

Workfare schemes impose work requirements on beneficiaries. This has seemed an attractive idea for self …-targeting transfers to poor people. This incentive argument does not imply, however, that workfare is more cost-effective against poverty … than even poorly-targeted options, given hidden costs of participation. In particular, even poor workfare participants in a …

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Testing Information Constraints on India's Largest Antipoverty Program

Ravallion, Martin - 2017

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar, where participation is also unusually low. Is the solution simply to tell people their rights? Or does their lack of knowledge reflect deeper problems of poor people's agency and...

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Evaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant : Evidence for India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2017

Prevailing practices in evaluating workfare programs have ignored the disutility of the type of work done, with …

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Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh

Cho, Yoonyoung - 2018

Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the … evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program …'s efficiency. Moreover, further evidence is required on the impacts of work experience through workfare on subsequent labor market …

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The State of Jobs in Post-Conflict Areas of Sri Lanka

Newhouse, David Locke - 2018

Although Sri Lanka has made significant progress in social and economic development over the past decade, the Northern and Eastern provinces that faced the brunt of the decades-long conflict remain disproportionately poor. To understand the labor market dimensions of poverty in these regions,...

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Earnings Premiums and Penalties for Self-Employment and Informal Employees Around the World

Gindling, T. H. - 2017

This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are divided into four categories: non-professional own-account workers, employers and own-account professionals, informal wage employees, and formal wage employees. Approximately half...

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Mobility, Scarring and Job Quality in Indonesia?S Labor Market

Naidoo, Darian - 2017

This paper investigates the occupational mobility and job quality of young people in Indonesia and relates this to the concept of ?scarring.? The concept of labor market scarring in this paper is the occurrence of low or zero returns to certain types of work (for example, self-employment)....

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