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Job skills and minority youth : new program directions
Hirsch, Barton Jay - 2015
"Minority youth unemployment is an enduring economic and social concern. This book evaluates two new initiatives for … development. Beneficial for policy makers and practitioners as well as scholars, Job Skills and Minority Youth focuses on …Minority youth unemployment is an enduring economic and social concern. This book evaluates two new initiatives for …
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Snapping back : food stamp bans and criminal recidivism
Tuttle, Cody - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 11 (2019) 2, pp. 301-327
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"Something Works" in U.S. Jails : Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program
Alsan, Marcella; Barnett, Arkey M.; Hull, Peter; Yang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A longstanding and influential view in U.S. correctional policy is that "nothing works" when it comes to rehabilitating incarcerated individuals. We revisit this hypothesis by studying an innovative law-enforcement-led program launched in the county jail of Flint, Michigan: Inmate Growth...
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In-Kind Welfare Benefits and Reincarceration Risk : Evidence from Medicaid
Burns, Marguerite; Dague, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Most of the 600,000 adults returning to the community from state and federal prisons annually in the U.S. carry substantial debt, have low income and low education, and limited formal employment prior to entering prison. Upon reentry, they face financial hardship, high rates of morbidity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322781
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Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Attanasio, Orazio - 2009
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 …
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Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia
Bratti, Massimiliano; Ghirelli, Corinna; Enkelejda, Havari - In: Journal of population economics : international … 35 (2022) 2, pp. 677-717
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Job training programs for youth in low-income countries
Stöterau, Jonathan - 2019
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Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record
Cullen, Zoë B.; Dobbie, Will; Hoffman, Mitchell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
State and local policies increasingly restrict employers' access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that employers may conduct criminal background checks. Employers may thus still want to ask about a job applicant's criminal record later in the hiring process or...
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Increasing the demand for workers with a criminal record
Cullen, Zoë B.; Dobbie, Will; Hoffman, Mitchell - In: The quarterly journal of economics 138 (2023) 1, pp. 103-150
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Evaluating school-to-work programs using the new NLSY
Neumark, David; Joyce, Mary - 2000
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