skills
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Reducing labour market information frictions with skill certificates: Evidence from South Africa
Youth skill assessment increased employment and earnings for treated workseekers by providing information to both them and prospective employers
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Hard and soft skills in vocational training: Experimental evidence from Colombia
While technical skills training increases overall employment in the short term, soft skills training increases employment and earnings in the long term
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When goals get in the way: Imperfect information in job search in South Africa
Reducing transport costs and increasing exposure to the labour market leads to job seekers improving targeting in the job search
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Skills and personality matter, but how do we capture them?
Data from developing country settings highlight the risk of misinterpreting non-cognitive skills and personality using existing measures
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Barriers to growth
Tony Addison, Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, discusses the key barriers to growth and how to overcome them.
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The impact of skills development on adolescent girls in Uganda and Liberia
Gender-sensitive youth employment programmes combining income generation and life skills training can be effective in helping adolescent girls succeed