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This study finds that vocational training and apprenticeships both raise employment of poor Ugandan youth, but vocational training provides general skills that foster mobility and result in higher earnings.

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Tackling Youth Unemployment through Vocational Training and Apprenticeships

Abstract

Other research note publications

Enterprise Responses to Redistribution in Kenya

Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT

Productivity and Competition in India's Brick Industry

Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth: 5-Year Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia

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