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This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican Republic’s youth training program … youth behavior and life style, expectations about the future and socio-emotional skills. In terms of labor market outcomes …), which is consistent with an overall increase in youth expectations about the future. The program also has a positive impact …
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Every year millions of young adults join the labor market in Africa. This paper uses the Jobs of the World Database to compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are similar at similar levels of development but young...
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This study uses a randomized control trial (RCT) to evaluate a new program for increased labor market integration of refugees. The program has immediate and substantial short-run effects on employment, corresponding to around 15 percentage points. The effect lasts for three years but eventually...
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This paper analyses labour market integration in Austria of non-European refugees originating from middle and low …-humanitarian migrants, European third country immigrants and natives. We draw on a register based panel dataset covering the complete labour … market careers of all individuals residing in Austria. We control for macro level explanatory variables (e.g. the labour …
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