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Youth unemployment in Latin America is exceptionally high, as much as 50% among the poor. Vocational training may be the best chance to help unemployed young people at the bottom of the income distribution. This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 on the employment and earnings of trainees.
Authors
CPP Co-Director
Orazio is an International Research Fellow at the IFS, a Professor at Yale and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Research Fellow Yale University
Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.
Adriana Kugler
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- IFS
Suggested citation
O, Attanasio and A, Kugler and C, Meghir. (2008). Training disadvantaged youth in Latin America: evidence from a randomized trial. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/training-disadvantaged-youth-latin-america-evidence-randomized-trial (accessed: 2 May 2024).
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