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IZA Discussion Paper No. 15687
Education Expansion and High-Skill Job Opportunities for Workers: Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats?
Tobias Schultheiss, Curdin Pfister, Ann-Sophie Gnehm, Uschi Backes-Gellner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14427
Can Information about Jobs Improve the Effectiveness of Vocational Training? Experimental Evidence from India
Bhaskar Chakravorty, Wiji Arulampalam, Clement Imbert, Roland Rathelot
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11870
Vocational Training for Unemployed Youth in Latvia: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Massimiliano Bratti, Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari, Giulia Santangelo
revised version published as 'Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 677–717
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11080
Early Tracking, Academic vs. Vocational Training and the Value of 'Second Chance' Options
Martin Biewen, Madalina Tapalaga
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101900
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11027
The Effect of Immigrant Peers in Vocational Schools
Tommaso Frattini, Elena Meschi
published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 1-22
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10655
How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
David McKenzie
published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2017, 32(2), 127-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10199
Barriers to Skill Acquisition: Evidence from English Training in India
Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani
published in: World Development, 2019, 114, 314-325
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9699
Life-Cycle Educational Choices: Evidence for Two German Cohorts
Martin Biewen, Madalina Tapalaga
substantially revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 56, 80-94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8901
Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany
Regina T. Riphahn, Michael Zibrowius
published in: Education Economics, 2016, 24 (1), 33 - 57
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8668
The Long-term Earnings Consequences of General vs. Specific Training of the Unemployed
Anders Stenberg, Olle Westerlund
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015, 4:22.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8552
Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani
Published in: Labour Economics (Special Issue on Field Experiments in Labor Economics and Social Policies), 2017, 45: 116-130.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8059
The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Sarojini Hirshleifer, David McKenzie, Rita K. Almeida, Cristobal Ridao-Cano
published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (579), 2115 - 1246 [Online]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7386
Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6890
Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training
Costanza Biavaschi, Werner Eichhorst, Corrado Giulietti, Michael J. Kendzia, Alexander Muravyev, Janneke Pieters, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Ricarda Schmidl, Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2013, 9 (1-2), 1-157
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6171
Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe
Hector Sala, José I. Silva
published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2013, 40 (1), 31-41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6037
When the Early Bird Catches the Worm: The Impact of Training in Retail
Christiane Hinerasky, René Fahr
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5548
Improving the Employment Rates of People with Disabilities through Vocational Education
Kostas Mavromaras, Cain Polidano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4251
Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler, Costas Meghir
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (3), 188-220
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4180
The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt, Mathias Sinning
published in: Labour Economics, 2009 (6), 16, 659-668
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3323
What Happened to the PISA 2000 Participants Five Years Later?
Kathrin Bertschy, Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Stefan C. Wolter
published as 'PISA and the Transition into the Labour Market' in: Labour, 2009, 23 (Special Issue), 111 - 137
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