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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...
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Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training … correlation between continuing vocational training and wages are examined. Results are compared in order to analyse in how far …
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mobility caused by retraining courses has the same impact on workers as if they lacked retraining. The wages of workers trained …
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administrative data reveals that the reform led to more apprentices in German firms despite a decrease in apprentice wages. This can … apprentices; setting lower wages is possible because of a rising supply of apprentices owing to substantially improved employment …
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This paper tests the hypothesis that employment protection legislation (EPL) increases the incentives of firms to train their employees. The identification strategy uses a regression discontinuity design (RDD) that exploits exemptions of small firms from EPL. Using firm-level data from Finland...
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employees in small and medium-sized establishments by reducing training costs by 50%. The estimation is based on a quasi …
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employees in small and medium-sized establishments by reducing training costs by 50%. The estimation is based on a quasi …
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United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages …. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing evidence of positive effects of JC on wages both at the mean and …. Furthermore, we find that the program's effect on wages varies across quantiles and groups. Blacks likely experience larger …
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United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages …. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing evidence of positive effects of JC on wages both at the mean and …. Furthermore, we find that the program's effect on wages varies across quantiles and groups. Blacks likely experience larger …
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job training on wage rates across firms with a weighted-average of the contrast in wages between different firms for a … fixed level of training. Thus, Lee bounds set identifies a policy-relevant estimand only when firms pay homogeneous wages … training on wage rates at each firm which leverage information on firm-specific wages. We illustrate our partial identification …
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