论文标题
职业培训计划和青年劳动力市场成果：尼泊尔的证据
Vocational Training Programs and Youth Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Nepal
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论文摘要
缺乏技能可以说是高水平失业和贫困的最重要决定因素之一。作为回应，决策者经常启动职业培训计划，以增强青年的技能形成。使用回归案件设计，我们检查了尼泊尔的大型青年训练干预措施。我们发现，在培训计划开始十二个月后，干预措施的非农业就业增加了10个百分点（ITT估计）和计划适合计划的最多31个百分点（后期估计）。我们还发现每月收入的巨大收益。在家中开始自雇活动的妇女在很大程度上驱动了这些影响。我们认为，低基线教育水平和非农民就业水平以及尼泊尔对妇女的社会和文化规范驱动了我们的巨大计划影响。我们的结果表明，该计划使其他就业不足的妇女能够在呆在家里的同时赚取收入 - 接近家庭差事，并符合社会文化规范，以阻止她们在众议院外从事就业。
Lack of skills is arguably one of the most important determinants of high levels of unemployment and poverty. In response, policymakers often initiate vocational training programs in effort to enhance skill formation among the youth. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we examine a large youth training intervention in Nepal. We find, twelve months after the start of the training program, that the intervention generated an increase in non-farm employment of 10 percentage points (ITT estimates) and up to 31 percentage points for program compliers (LATE estimates). We also detect sizeable gains in monthly earnings. Women who start self-employment activities inside their homes largely drive these impacts. We argue that low baseline educational levels and non-farm employment levels and Nepal's social and cultural norms towards women drive our large program impacts. Our results suggest that the program enables otherwise underemployed women to earn an income while staying at home - close to household errands and in line with the socio-cultural norms that prevent them from taking up employment outside the house.
