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as a pedagogical tool. The corresponding life skills training component is combined with a technical component teaching … vocational skills. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of a training program … constructed around expressive arts. Using a randomized assignment of favela youth into program and control groups, we look at the …
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as a pedagogical tool. The corresponding life skills training component is combined with a technical component teaching … vocational skills. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of a training program … constructed around expressive arts. Using a randomized assignment of favela youth into program and control groups, we look at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359428
(employment) and intensive (hours of work, income) margin, but it (i) induced occupational sorting, with treated individuals more … likely to work in their field of specialization, (ii) partially improved job quality (written contracts, medical benefits …
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We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life-skills …
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This paper compares the relative effectiveness of selected active labour market policies available to young unemployed people in Poland over the 2015-2016 period. We use rich administrative data and propensity score matching techniques to control for the non-random selection of unemployed...
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We use a regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points...
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as part of the Youth Guarantee programme. The subsidy covers the total wage cost with no obligation to retain the new …, cognitive skills measured at age 15, health and social security records. The causal impact of the subsidy on subsequent … standardised competence tests. One potential explanation is that employers tend to retain those with better cognitive skills …
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Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real …
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interruption in labour force participation or which allow the combination of work and care by introducing part-time working hours …
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Finding a job requires effective search skills to engage successfully with employers with vacancies. In a field … experiment, we test a website that supplements such search skills by providing editable resume and cover letter templates as well …
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