This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training programs and a randomly selected control group from German...

Das AMS Wien faßte im Jahr 1998 intern den Beschluß, Wiedereinsteigerinnen als Zielgruppe speziell zu unterstützen. In der Folge wurde seitens des AMS Wien in Kooperation mit dem Wiener ArbeitnehmerInnen Förderungsfonds (WAFF) ein Grundgerüst für Kursmaßnahmen zur Unterstützung...

Der vorliegende AMS report beinhaltet die Ergebnisse der vom Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS) im Auftrag der Landesgeschäftsstelle des AMS Wien im Jahr 2000 durchgeführten Evaluation der Maßnahme "WiederIn", die für Wiedereinsteigerinnen mit einer längeren Unterbrechungsdauer - d.h....

It is a well-established fact that mothers' labour force participation reacts differently to different types of family benefits. It is also already well-known that cultural and religious factors have an impact on their labour force participation. But does the labour force reaction to family...

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training courses and a randomly selected control group from German...