enrollment among disadvantaged, in-school youth in the Philippines. This experience leads to a 4.4 percentage point (79-percent …We use a randomized field experiment to test the causal impact of short-term work experience on employment and school … employment gains push youth out of school. Our results are most consistent with work experience serving as a signal of …

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 …

endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than …

Because of its high incidence and potential threat to social cohesion, youth unemployment is a global concern. This … disadvantaged youth in Mongolia. Mongolia, a transitional country whose economic structure shifted from a communist, centrally …

Employers around the world complain that youth lack the soft skills needed for success in the workplace. In response, a … to the effectiveness of such programs. This paper reports on a randomized experiment in Jordan in which female community …

This paper evaluates a youth internship program in Yemen. We examine the demand for the program and find an oversupply …

This paper evaluates a youth internship program in the Republic of Yemen that provided firms with a 50 percent subsidy … required both firms and youth to apply for the program. The paper examines the demand for such a program, and finds that in the …

This paper presents the main results of three Discrete Choice Experiments designed to estimate youth preferences for … took place in urban areas in Kenya. We find that youth, in general, prefer to work in jobs that have the attributes of … youth demand to facilitate access to wage employment include jobs search assistance and training on soft-skills, followed by …