Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: A Long-Term Follow-Up

Attanasio, Orazio; Guarin, Arlen; Durango, Carlos Alberto Medina; Meghir, Costas

doi:10.1257/app.20150554

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“…The IRRs that only account for the benefits from direct participant earnings are 22.1 percent for females and 10.2 percent for males (row 2, Panel B, Table 11). Since 54.8 percent of our sample is female, we estimate an IRR for the full sample of 16.75 percent, very similar to the 16 percent IRR reported by Attanasio et al (2017).…”

Section: Welfare Analysismentioning

confidence: 58%

“…Among males, YiA increased formal employment by six percentage points but had no effect on earnings. Using the same randomization cohort as we do, Attanasio et al (2017) document persistent earnings gains and increased likelihood of formal sector employment in the medium-term among program participants. Based on these impacts and program cost data, the study by Attanasio et al (2017)…”

Section: B Prior Evidence On the Effects Of Yiamentioning

confidence: 93%

“…We examine whether the short-term effects found in AKM for labor market outcomes and in Attanasio et al (2017) for medium-term are also evident in our data up to eight years after random assignment.…”

Section: Impacts On Long-term Labor Market Outcomes Of Participantmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…As in AKM and Attanasio et al (2017), baseline characteristics of training applicants in the 2005 cohort are fairly balanced across randomization groups. Table 1 reports coefficients of regressions of the variable on a treatment indicator and training institution fixed effects, to 10 There were originally 4,351 individuals in the treatment and control groups of the baseline sample, but as in AKM, we drop 9.1 percent of the individuals in the sample, who were randomly assigned to the treatment and control groups after the January 18, 2005 date when all random assignments were supposed to occur.…”

Section: A Randomization Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A follow-up study finds that these early effects on labor market outcomes of the Colombian training program persist in the medium-term (Attanasio, Kugler, and Meghir 2017). AKM and Attanasio et al (2017) find that the employment benefits of vocational training for women exceed program costs even when assuming that skills depreciate over time. However, evidence from the few other randomized controlled trials on vocational training in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Kenya and Turkey suggest modest 3 short-and long-term impacts on the labor market outcomes of participants (Alzua, Cruces, and Lopez 2016;Card et al 2011;Hicks et al 2014;Hirshleifer et al 2016;Ripani et al 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

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We use administrative data and a randomization design to examine the long-term educational impacts of a large-scale vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Colombia on trainees and their relatives. Up to eleven years after randomization, trainees were more likely to enroll in formal tertiary education, and their relatives more likely to complete secondary schooling. Various empirical tests suggest that, for females, vocational training helped relax credit constraints stemming from the direct costs of tertiary education. For males, the evidence suggests that additional tertiary education investments arise from the program improving fieldspecific knowledge and/or information about field-specific returns to tertiary education. Focusing only on labor-market outcomes and not accounting for these long-term tertiary education impacts on participants substantially understates the social desirability of the Colombian vocational training program. By contrast, including tertiary education impacts on participants increases the program's internal rate of return for women from 22.2% to 23.5% and for men from 10.2% to 20.5%.

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Vocational education reform and corporate skilled human capital: Evidence from China

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This paper uses panel data from China at the city, college, and corporation levels and employs the difference‐in‐differences method to study the impact of the Vocational Education Reform (VER) on corporate skilled human capital. We find that (1) the VER significantly increases the level of corporate skilled human capital. (2) The impact of the VER on corporate skilled human capital is long‐lasting and sustained. (3) The VER strengthens the human capital in regional manufacturing by boosting funding for vocational education, raising the level of science education in schools, and promoting corporate development, thereby increasing the demand for skilled human capital.

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Impact of employment support programs on the quality of youth employment: Evidence from Senegal's internship program

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Youth unemployment is major policy concern in Senegal. The country has in recent years, implemented several programs to combat unemployment and the precariousness of youth employment in the labor market. However, the results of these programs are to date hardly perceptible. The objective of this work is to assess the impact of employment support programs on the quality of youth employment. We provide empirical evidence of the effect of the apprenticeship program implemented by the National State‐Employer Convention in facilitating youth access to quality employment. Job quality is determined using an index that captures multiple wage and non‐wage dimensions of job quality. Using survey data on the improvement of employment policies from 2746 individuals, we use the endogenous switching regression method and the propensity score matching method to assess and compare the impact of the apprenticeship program on the quality of jobs held by young men and women. The results show that the apprenticeship program has a positive and significant impact on job quality. Indeed, we find that the quality of employment is better for young men and women who benefited from the internship program than for those who did not. We find, however, that there is a difference in job quality between males and females who received the program. The differences in job quality are explained more by differences in job characteristics but are not directly related to gender or age.

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Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: A Long-Term Follow-Up

Cited by 73 publications

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Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia

Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia

Vocational education reform and corporate skilled human capital: Evidence from China

Impact of employment support programs on the quality of youth employment: Evidence from Senegal's internship program

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