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 …

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 …

(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 …

We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life-skills …

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 …

Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real …

interruption in labour force participation or which allow the combination of work and care by introducing part-time working hours …

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 …