Hard and soft skills in vocational training: Experimental evidence from Colombia

F Barrera-Osorio, A Kugler… - The World Bank Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This paper studies the effects of an oversubscribed job-training program on skills and labor-
market outcomes using both survey and administrative data. Overall, vocational training …

Tendencias mundiales, pandemia de COVID-19 y desafíos de la inclusión laboral en América Latina y el Caribe

J Weller - 2022 - repositorio.cepal.org
Los mercados de trabajo de América Latina y el Caribe enfrentan grandes transformaciones
que afectan la generación de empleo y sus características, al tiempo que aumentan el …

Returns to vocational education and training

S McNally, G Ventura, H Virtanen - Handbook of Labor, Human Resources …, 2022 - Springer
What are the consequences of choosing the vocational track over the general or academic
track in upper secondary education? This review discusses the evidence for this. It first sets …

Can a Pay-for-Performance Program Help the Vulnerable find Jobs during a Pandemic?: Experimental Evidence from Empleate in Colombia

MF Gómez, C González-Velosa - 2023 - publications.iadb.org
During a period of COVID-19-induced job losses and mobility restrictions, the government of
Colombia's launched Empléate, an innovative Pay-for-performance (P4P) program that …

How Does Job Coaching Help Disability Insurance Recipients Work While on Claim?

S Fontenay, I Tojerow - 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We evaluate the effects of a Supported Employment (SE) program aimed at Disability
Insurance (DI) recipients with mental conditions. The program is characterized by a" work …

[PDF][PDF] Essays on Three Social Insurance Programs

B Cockx - 2022 - dipot.ulb.ac.be
One in ten women are self-employed in the European Union, and one in twenty in the United
States. But according to the International Social Survey on Work Orientations, if women …