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Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty … reduce the risk of social instability? We experimentally evaluate one of Uganda's largest development programs, which … monitoring and accountability, most youth invest the transfer in vocational skills and tools. Second, the economic impacts of the …
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Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty … reduce the risk of social instability? The authors experimentally evaluate one of Uganda's largest development programs … central monitoring and accountability, most youth invest the transfer in vocational skills and tools. Second, the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247911
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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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 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 …Dieses Papier untersucht die langfristigen Arbeitsmarkteffekte einer Bildungsmaßnahme für benachteiligte Jugendliche …
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We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life …
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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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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, it is one of the first experimental long-term evaluation of a youth training program outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473421
enrollment among disadvantaged, in-school youth in the Philippines. This experience leads to a 4.4 percentage point (79-percent … employment gains push youth out of school. Our results are most consistent with work experience serving as a signal of …-income youth. …
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The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many … profits were concentrated among marginal students induced into entrepreneurship by the program. Youth entrepreneurship …
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