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An impact assessment of ESF training courses for unemployed in the province of Bolzano

Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022

This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...

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Why guarantee employment? : evidence from a large Indian public-works program

Zimmermann, Laura - 2020

Most countries around the world implement some form of a safety net program for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs. But they could also improve workers' welfare by allowing them to take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This...

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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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Defining and measuring workforce development in the United States in a post-bipartisan era

Holland, Brian - 2018

The bipartisan acceptance of a federal role in workforce development policy is no longer in play as a result of ideological differences in the definition of workforce development which arise from a lack of coherent and misunderstood outcomes. My attempt here is to posit a new definition for...

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Evaluation of language training programs in Luxembourg using principal stratification

Bia, Michela; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Mercatanti, Andrea - 2018

language training program on the re-employment probability and hourly wages of the unemployed simultaneously, using highquality …, and account for the complication that wages are "truncated" by unemployment by adopting a principal stratification … the re-employment probability, but no effects on wages for those who are observed employed regardless of training …

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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics

Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020

to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …

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An Indian enigma? : labour market impacts of the world's largest livelihoods program

Deshpande, Ashwini; Khanna, Shantanu; Walia, Daksh - 2023

We examine the labour market impacts of the largest livelihoods programs in the world, India's Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM). A key aspect of this program is to mobilize rural women into self-help groups (SHGs). We combine administrative data on SHG...

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Towards a European full employment policy

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Full employment in the European Union member states is a challenge but feasible, also in downswings of the business cycle and during stages of increased robotization. It requires a labor legislation that ensures flexibility and retraining, responsive labor sharing during the business cycle and...

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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the Wiles test

Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...

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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch based on AlmaLaurea data

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

This essay delivers two main innovations with respect to the existing literature. First, and foremost, by extending the work of Nicaise (2010) relative to the reservation wage to the case of overeducation, we propose a statistical test to discriminate between alternative theoretical...

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