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Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the primary federal job training program in the U.S, based on administrative data from 12 states … participate, estimated for up to four years following entry into the program using propensity score matching methods. The results …-hundred-dollar increase in quarterly earnings. Adult program participants who obtain training have lower earnings in the months during …
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administrative data represent an invaluable resource for evaluating the impact of ALMPs -- 1.3. Vocational training and employment … subsidies help to connect people with jobs, but could be fine-tuned further -- 1.3.1. Vocational training and employment … and high-skilled jobseekers are more likely to enter the vocational training or employment subsidy programmes -- 1 …
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practice with labour market training, we get the somewhat paradoxical result that job practice participants would have gained … more from training, while the training participants would have gained equally much from both programmes. A re-shuffling of …
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The Swedish adult education program called Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment...
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This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were...
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This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were...
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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 and vocational training, as well as internships with private sector employers. Participants were allocated by means of a …
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In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...
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Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle … income countries. We report medium and long-term impacts of a job training program for vulnerable workers in Chile on labor … by course-type, training provider quality, and gender. This evidence aims at contributing to a better design of training …
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