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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: an evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company program
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students' entrepreneurshi ... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Netherlands
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Skills and knowledge; Providers of education and training; Evaluation
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On the returns to training in Portugal
This paper investigates the earnings effects of training in the Portuguese labour market. We use the Portuguese Lab ... Show more
Date: 2004
Geographic subjects: Europe; Portugal
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Participation; Labour market; Research ... [+] Show more
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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed
This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemploy ... Show more
Date: 2009
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Migration; Labour market; Demographics ... [+] Show more
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How do training programs assign participants to training?: characterizing the assignment rules of government agencies for Welfare-to-Work programs in California
A great deal of attention has been paid in the literature to estimating the impacts of training programs. Much less ... Show more
Date: 2009
Geographic subjects: North America; United States
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Participation; Skills and knowledge; Statistics ... [+] Show more
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Estimating marginal returns to education
This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marg ... Show more
Date: 2010
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
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Why some firms train apprentices and many others do not
The latest study investigating the cost-benefit ratio of apprenticeship training for Swiss companies has shown that ... Show more
Date: 2003
Geographic subjects: Europe; Switzerland
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Apprenticeship; Finance ... [+] Show more
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Money matters: evidence from a large-scale randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training
This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 200 ... Show more
Date: 2009
Geographic subjects: Europe; Switzerland
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Participation; Adult and community education; Statistics ... [+] Show more
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Teams or tournaments?: a field experiment on cooperation and competition among university students
This paper assesses the effect of two stylized and antithetic non-monetary incentive schemes on students' effort. W ... Show more
Date: 2011
Geographic subjects: Italy; Europe
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Providers of education and training; Students; Performance ... [+] Show more
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Labor mobility of immigrants: training, experience, language and opportunities
This paper analyses the labour mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former ... Show more
Date: 2002
Geographic subjects: Middle East; Israel
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Language; Skills and knowledge; Gender ... [+] Show more
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A labor market approach to the crisis of health care professionals in Africa
This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in ... Show more
Date: 2011
Geographic subjects: Africa
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Labour market; Employment; Industry ... [+] Show more