The Apprenticeship-to-Work Transition : Experimental Evidence from Ghana
This paper examines the effects of a government-sponsored apprenticeship training program designed to address high levels of youth unemployment in Ghana. The study exploits randomized access to the program to examine the short-run effects of appren...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/835751557408824890/The-Apprenticeship-to-Work-Transition-Experimental-Evidence-from-Ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31676 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the effects of a
government-sponsored apprenticeship training program
designed to address high levels of youth unemployment in
Ghana. The study exploits randomized access to the program
to examine the short-run effects of apprenticeship training
on labor market outcomes. The results show that
apprenticeships shift youth out of wage work and into
self-employment. However, the loss of wage income is not
offset by increases in self-employment profits in the short
run. In addition, the study uses the randomized match
between apprentices and training providers to examine the
causal effect of characteristics of trainers on outcomes for
apprentices. Participants who trained with the most
experienced trainers or the most profitable ones had higher
earnings. These increases more than offset the
program's negative treatment effect on earnings. This
suggests that training programs can be made more effective
through better recruitment of trainers. |
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