Search Results - subject:"school to work transition"

Assessing the impact of off- and on-the-job training on employment outcomes : a counterfactual evaluation of the PIPOL program

Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2019

This evaluation study aims to assess the impact of PIPOL, an integrated program of active labor policies, on the employment integration of benefit recipients. To address the issue, we have resorted to a counterfactual approach with data from two main sources: the program administration and...

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Sometimes It Works! The Effect of a Reform of the Short Vocational Track on School-to-Work Transition

Comi, Simona Lorena; Grasseni, Mara; Origo, Federica - 2022

This paper studies the impact on the length of school-to-work transition of a reform that extended from two to three … positive impact and reduced school-to-work transition by around 5 months (a 24% reduction). Moreover, the new short vocational … track proved to be extremely effective for migrants and females, whose school-to-work transition was reduced by 1.4 years …

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Health, personality disorders, work commitment and training to employment transitions

Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; Barabasch, Anton - 2022

, this study provides evidence of a cumulative disadvantage of the least educated in the school-to-work transition. …

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The COVID-19 pandemic, well-being, and transitions to post-secondary education

Sandner, Malte; Patzina, Alexander; Anger, Silke; … - In: Review of Economics of the Household 21 (2022) 2, pp. 461-483

This study examines the immediate and intermediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of two high school graduation cohorts (2020 and 2021) and how changes in well-being affect students' educational plans and outcomes. Our unique panel data on 3697 students from 214 schools in 8...

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The Impact of Vocational Training Interventions on Youth Labor Market Outcomes : A Meta-Analysis

Stöterau, Jonathan; Kemper, Johanna; Ghisletta, Andrea - 2022

This paper synthesizes the empirical evidence of youth-targeted vocational training interventions on labor market outcomes. Our sample includes over 1,650 effect size estimates from 89 impact evaluations globally. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, vocational training has an...

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Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments

Kalil, Ariel; Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; Schwartz, Ofira; … - 2022

This study investigates effects of welfare reform in the U.S., a major policy shift that increased employment of low-income mothers and reliance on their own earnings instead of cash assistance through the welfare system, on the quality of the home environments they provide for their...

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Migration Policy and Labor Market Integration

Mitterbacher, Kerstin - 2022

We experimentally study economic migrants’ willingness to relocate to, and take up work in, the destination country, and, in turn, destination country citizens’ willingness to allow economic migrants to relocate to and pursue formal work in their country. In doing so, we focus on economic...

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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Anderson, Fredrick; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2022

We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two states. Our substantive contributions center on impacts estimated non-experimentally using administrative data. These impacts compare WIA participants who do and do not receive...

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Skill Downgrading Among Refugees and Economic Immigrants in Germany : Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila - 2022

Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...

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The Millennials' Transition from School to Work

wong, Yuet-Yee Linda; Bowlus, Audra J. - 2022

This is the first paper that studies Millennials' school-to-work transition. Based on a dataset that circumvents the …

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