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While developed-country job training programs produce modest impacts, short-term private sector work experience in low-income contexts generates large wage returns (an approximate 80% wage increase or $3.83 per day), substantially outperforming traditional public sector training initiatives.
Empirical evidence across fragile states shows minimal support for the effectiveness of skills training programs alone, demonstrating that cash and capital injections generate significantly larger and more sustained income and health impacts.
Acquiring 5 days of short-term work experience increased average daily wages by $3.83 (representing an approximate 80% wage increase) over the 8-month follow-up period and increased subsequent employment probability by 6.8 to 8.8 percentage points [14-16].
Acquiring short-term work experience increased the probability of receiving any job referral by 22.2 percentage points (p < 0.05) and increased the overall social network index by 0.306 standard deviations (p < 0.10) over the 8-month follow-up period.