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Life skills, employability and training for disadvantaged youth : evidence from a randomized evaluation design
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Ripani, Laura; Taboada, Bibiana; … - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-24
in monthly earnings among those employed. However, there are no overall impacts on employment rates. Regarding non … employability and quality of employment, the practical significance of the impacts is unclear, as there is only weak evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010389562
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Settlement policies and the economic success of immigrants
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - 2000
Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that featured dispersion of refugee immigrants across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589290
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Experimental evidence on the long-term impacts of a youth training program
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Shady, … - 2015
-up. Our empirical findings document significant impacts on the formality of employment, particularly for men, and impacts for … are sustained and growing over time. There are no impacts on average employment, which is consistent with the low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288535
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Experimental evidence on the long term impacts of a youth training program
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Shady, … - 2015
-up. Our empirical findings document significant impacts on the formality of employment, particularly for men, and impacts for … are sustained and growing over time. There are no impacts on average employment, which is consistent with the low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308588
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Impact evaluation of the job youth training program Projoven
Díaz, Juan José; Rosas, David - 2016
), 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472128
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Experimental evidence on the long term impacts of a youth training program
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Rosas … - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473421
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Long-run consequences of exposure to natural disasters
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony - 2016
We utilize the individual-level World War I Draft Registration Cards matched to late-nineteenth century hurricane paths and the 1940 U.S. Census to explore whether fetal and early childhood exposure to stress caused by hurricanes affects human capital development and labor market outcomes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565659
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Long-run impacts of in-utero Ramadan exposure: evidence from administrative tax records
Cejka, Timotej; Waseem, Mazhar - 2022
Using Ramadan fasting as a natural experiment, we estimate the long-run impacts of in-utero health and nutrition shocks on adult outcomes. We exploit administrative tax return data comprising the universe of income tax returns filed in Pakistan during 2007–2009. The data allow us to link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174485
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Technical education, non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from Brazil
Camargo, Juliana; Lima, Lycia; Riva, Flavio; Souza, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-34
outcomes and non-cognitive skills. Employment rose by 21 percentage points (or approximately 33%) and the gains in earnings are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815172
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Entry barriers and the labor market outcomes of incumbent workers : evidence from a deregulation reform in the German crafts sector
Lergetporer, Philipp; Ruhose, Jens; Simon, Lisa - 2018
competitiveness of new businesses. Supporting this view, the reform did not lead to overall employment growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916534