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Can skill diversification improve welfare in rural areas? : Evidence from the rural skills development project in Bhutan
Chun, Natalie - 2011
benefits of a vocational skills training program that was intended to help diversify incomes into sources outside of …. Further, evidence suggests that those who underwent longer training were more likely to have better job opportunities. This … suggests that: (i) there is a need to place a greater emphasis on creating a mechanism to connect the training program to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301867
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Can Skill Diversification Improve Welfare in Rural Areas? Evidence from the Rural Skills Development Project in Bhutan
Chun, Natalie; Watanabe, Makiko - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2011
benefits of a vocational skills training program that was intended to help diversify incomes into sources outside of …. Further, evidence suggests that those who underwent longer training were more likely to have better job opportunities. This … suggests that: (i) there is a need to place a greater emphasis on creating a mechanism to connect the training program to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009245395
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Can Skill Diversification Improve Welfare in Rural Areas? Evidence from the Rural Skills Development Project in Bhutan
Chun, Natalie - 2012
survey of rural Bhutanese households we investigate the impacts of a vocational skills training program that was intended to … training program to income generating opportunities via job placement services, entrepreneurship or mentoring services is …) refining the curriculum and extending the training time to allow trainees to develop their skills may be important; (iii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114501
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Subsidizing vocational training for disadvantaged youth in developing countries: evidence from a randomized trial
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kugler, Adriana D.; Meghir, Costas - 2009
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 …. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use … originally collected data on individuals randomly offered and not offered training. The program raises earnings and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269013
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Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2009
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 …. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use … originally collected data on individuals randomly offered and not offered training. The program raises earnings and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158515
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Subsidizing vocational training for disadvantaged youth in developing countries : evidence from a randomized trial
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kugler, Adriana D.; Meghir, Costas - 2009
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 …. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use … originally collected data on individuals randomly offered and not offered training. The program raises earnings and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858877
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Born this way : the effect of an unexpected child benefit at birth on longer-term educational outcomes
Sánchez-Coll, Sergi - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 1, pp. 105-141
Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to mothers giving birth or adopting a child, leading to a short-lived increase in births. In this study, I measure the causal impact that the transfer had on the language and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281323
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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2013
We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two … compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328972
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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 … compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we … of training on employment and earnings for adults, but not for dislocated workers. We find limited evidence of positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079790
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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Non-Experimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Andersson, Fredrik - 2016
We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two … compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980586