Demand-Driven Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Mongolia

Because of its high incidence and potential threat to social cohesion, youth unemployment is a global concern. This study uses a randomized controlled trial to analyze the effectiveness of a demand-driven vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Mongolia. Mongolia, a transitional coun...

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Autores principales:	Alzúa, María Laura, Batbekh, Soyolmaa, Batchuluun, Altantsetseg, Dalkhjavd, Bayarmaa, Galdo, José
Formato:	Articulo Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	2019
Materias:	Ciencias Económicas vocational training programs labor market randomized controlled trial employment earnings, job quality
Acceso en línea:	http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/80250 http://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/wp-content/uploads/doc_cedlas249.pdf
Aporte de:	SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata

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spellingShingle	Ciencias Económicas vocational training programs labor market randomized controlled trial employment earnings, job quality Alzúa, María Laura Batbekh, Soyolmaa Batchuluun, Altantsetseg Dalkhjavd, Bayarmaa Galdo, José Demand-Driven Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Mongolia
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description	Because of its high incidence and potential threat to social cohesion, youth unemployment is a global concern. This study uses a randomized controlled trial to analyze the effectiveness of a demand-driven vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Mongolia. Mongolia, a transitional country whose economic structure shifted from a communist, centrally planned economy to a free-market economy over a relatively short period, offers a new setting in which to test the effectiveness of standard active labor market policies. This study reports positive and statistically significant short-term effects of vocational training on monthly earnings, skills matching, and self-employment. Substantial heterogeneity emerges as relatively older, richer, and better-educated individuals drive these positive effects. A second intervention that randomly assigns participants to receive repetitive weekly newsletters with information on market returns to vocational training shows positive impacts on the length of exposure to and successful completion of the program. These positive effects, however, are only observed at the intensive margin and do not lead to higher employment or earnings outcomes.
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title	Demand-Driven Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Mongolia
title_short	Demand-Driven Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Mongolia
title_full	Demand-Driven Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Mongolia
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title_full_unstemmed	Demand-Driven Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Mongolia
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Demand-Driven Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Mongolia

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