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In a number of countries, youth unemployment is a pressing economic and political concern. In India, 54 percent of the … youth employment, the Government of India has launched a number of skills training programs. This paper deals with … poor youth. Initially, the program leads to a 29 percentage point increase in the employment rate of the trained graduates …
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This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program … trajectories of young people - and, to the best of our knowledge, is the first experimental long-term evaluation of a youth …
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This paper brings new evidence on the impact of The Peruvian Job Youth Training Program (Projoven). Compared with prior …
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in Sub-Saharan Africa were policies have too often prescribed it as the panacea to addressing youth unemployment. On the … one hand, it seems logical means of addressing youth unemployment and on the other hand, vocationalization has never … proven to be a straightforward solution or remedy to youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has not been able to …
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-of-school youth by providing them with an opportunity to quickly acquire qualifications and skills that can lead to productive …
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We use a randomized controlled trial to examine the short- and mid-term impacts of a best-practice training program on (non-)employment outcomes in Ghana. Overall the program did not affect core labor market outcomes at the extensive (employment) and intensive (hours of work, income) margin, but...
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constructed around expressive arts. Using a randomized assignment of favela youth into program and control groups, we look at the …
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