Tackling Youth Unemployment through Vocational Training and Apprenticeships

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Published on 14 March 2018

Abstract

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Tackling Youth Unemployment through Vocational Training and Apprenticeships

Abstract

Other research note publications

Enterprise Responses to Redistribution in Kenya

Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia

Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT

Interest Rate Caps, Relationship Lending, and Bank Competition: Evidence from Bangladesh

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Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda

Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs: A market-level randomized experiment in Kenya

The Skills to Pay the Bills: Returns to On-the-job Soft Skills Training

Are Small Firms Labour Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana