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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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whether a programme that supports firms to train disadvantaged youth can reduce recruiting difficulties in apprentice training …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 …
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intergenerational mobility. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to analyse how educational and income mobility …
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Youth training programs and their evaluations are ubiquitous, yet there is relatively little evidence on the mechanisms …21 , a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life-skills and vocational … directed at disadvantaged youth can provide other indirect benefits that are not usually accounted for in existing evaluations. …
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endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than …
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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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Youth training programs and their evaluations are ubiquitous, yet there is relatively little evidence on the mechanisms …21 , a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life-skills and vocational … directed at disadvantaged youth can provide other indirect benefits that are not usually accounted for in existing evaluations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429439
Because of its high incidence and potential threat to social cohesion, youth unemployment is a global concern. This … disadvantaged youth in Mongolia. Mongolia, a transitional country whose economic structure shifted from a communist, centrally …
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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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