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This paper proposes a new method to estimate the extent of job competition between workers with different schooling levels. We estimate the structural parameters of a matching function generalised to incorporate crowding out effects. We use flow data out of unemployment containing information on...
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This paper proposes a new method to estimate the extent of job competition between workers with different schooling levels. We estimate the structural parameters of a matching function generalised to incorporate crowding out effects. We use flow data out of unemployment containing information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412393
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587654
Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to … intervention. This paper argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and … evaluation of policy interventions and possible empirical strategies for their solution. The available scientific evidence on the …
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(Title: Active Labor Market Policy and its Evaluation: The Current State of Affairs) Despite the considerable effort … known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to construct a credible … argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and in information about …
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Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to … intervention. This paper argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and … evaluation of policy interventions and possible empirical strategies for their solution. The available scientific evidence on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339091
In a number of countries, youth unemployment is a pressing economic and political concern. In India, 54 percent of the country's population of 1.21 billion is below the age of 25 and faces a high rate of (disguised) unemployment. To augment youth employment, the Government of India has launched...
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of market-based approaches in the provision of public-sponsored training programs. In particular, we study the link between training quality and labor earnings using a Peruvian program that targets disadvantaged youths. Multiple proxies for training quality...
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of market-based approaches in the provision of public-sponsored training programs. In particular, we study the link between training quality and labor earnings using a Peruvian program that targets disadvantaged youths. Multiple proxies for training quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876287
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