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Impact evaluation of the job youth training program Projoven

Díaz, Juan José; Rosas, David - 2016

This paper brings new evidence on the impact of The Peruvian Job Youth Training Program (Projoven). Compared with prior evaluations of the program, this one has several advantages. This is the first experimental impact evaluation of Projoven, and also the first to measure impacts over a longer...

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Experimental evidence on the long term impacts of a youth training program

Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Rosas … - 2015

countries with high informality and no unemployment insurance. Looking at the local labor market context, the analysis suggests …

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Life skills, employability and training for disadvantaged youth : evidence from a randomized evaluation design

Ibarrarán, Pablo; Ripani, Laura; Taboada, Bibiana; … - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-24

This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican Republic’s youth training program Juventud y Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market outcomes and on outcomes related to youth behavior and life style, expectations about...

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Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantaged Youth : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design

Ibarraran, Pablo - 2012

This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market outcomes and on outcomes related to youth behavior and life style, expectations about the future and...

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Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-the-Job Human Capital Accumulation

Bobba, Matteo - 2019

raise to informality …

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Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments

Bobba, Matteo - 2019

informality may be reduced by either increasing or decreasing the payroll tax rate in the formal sector. They also show that a … universal social security benefit system would decrease informality, incentivize schooling, and increase productivity at a …

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Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments

Bobba, Matteo - 2017

-staggered entry across municipalities of a non-contributory social program. Policy experiments show that informality may be reduced by … benefit system would decrease informality, incentivize schooling, and increase productivity at a relative fiscal cost that is …

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Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program

Ibarraran, Pablo - 2015

unemployment in countries with high informality and no unemployment insurance. Looking at the local labor market context, the …

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Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labor Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality

Haanwinckel, Daniel - 2016

closely reproduces the decline in informality observed between 2003 and 2012. The change in the composition of the labor force … the effectiveness of a progressive payroll tax in reducing informality …

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Gender Gaps in Latin American Labor Markets : Implications from an Estimated Search Model

Tejada, Mauricio; Piras, Claudia C.; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2021

gender-based contribution rate for formal employees, and changes in formality and informality costs. We find that the impact …

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