Tag
youth_employment
12 findings
Labour & employmentCausal Wage Returns to Short-Term Work ExperienceAcquiring 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.RCTCrime & justiceContemporaneous Crime Reduction in At-Risk YouthSYEP participation decreases overall summer arrests by 17% and felony arrests by 23%. Among the at-risk subgroup, participation reduces summer arrests by 2.75 percentage points (a 23% drop, p < 0.10) and total arrests by 34 per 1,000 youth (a 24% drop). Convictions drop by 31% overall and 2.09 percentage points among at-risk youth (p < 0.01).RCTLabour & employmentIntermediate Target ConditioningCash transfers increased total months in the program by 7.9 months (ITT, p < 0.01) from a control mean of 11.4 months, and total counselor meetings by 5.3 (ITT, p < 0.01) from a control mean of 7.3. Information exposure increased by 48% (p < 0.01), yet the estimated treatment effect on the standardized human capital investment index and final employment outcomes was precisely zero.RCTLabour & employmentMulti-Tiered Corporate Mentorship Apprenticeship ModelThe program significantly enhanced participants' core and transversal skills (including self-confidence, communication, digital literacy, and problem-solving), though it produced no statistically significant short-term increases in employment rates, days worked, self-esteem, or post-program educational re-enrollment.RCTLabour & employmentThe Post-Program Labor Market Dissipation EffectSYEP participation increased in-program job probability by 71 percentage points and yielded $1,085 in program earnings ($876 net gain after $209 crowd-out of alternative income), but reduced subsequent earnings by ~$100 annually across the three post-program years. OSC+ increased program-summer formal employment by 85 percentage points (from a 12% baseline) and earnings by ~$1,000, but exhibited zero statistically significant impact on post-program employment, earnings, grade point average, or college enrollment.RCTCrime & justicePost-Program Violence Reduction via Workplace Social-Emotional LearningParticipation in One Summer Chicago Plus (OSC+) reduced violent crime arrests one year after random assignment by 6.4 arrests per 100 youth from a baseline of 18.3 arrests per 100 youth (a 35% reduction), with the bulk of the decline occurring after the program ended. OSC+ increased property crime arrests over two years by 5.8 per 100 youth from a baseline of 12.7 (a 45% increase). Estimated social benefits from violence reduction were nearly six times larger than program costs.RCTPolicy & public sectorSix-to-One Social Benefit-to-Cost Efficiency in Youth EmploymentSocial benefits from violent crime reduction in OSC+ were estimated to be nearly six times larger than program costs (~6:1 benefit-cost ratio). SYEP cost per participant was ~$1,400 ($1,463 in 2017 dollars), producing substantial overall reductions in incarceration and premature deaths at a fraction of alternative program costs.RCTLabour & employmentSkill Certification and Signaling WorkshopThe workshop increased 4-year earnings by 20% (USD 10 per month) above the control mean at a one-off cost of USD 18.20 per person. It increased short-run permanent employment by 6.9 percentage points (a nearly 60% increase over the 12% control mean) and increased job tenure duration by 10%.RCTLabour & employmentSkill Signaling via Application WorkshopThe workshop increased the probability of **permanent employment by 60%** (6.9 percentage points over a 12% control mean, p < 0.01) after one year. Four years later, the intervention increased **monthly earnings by 20%** (299.5 ETB, p < 0.05) and **job satisfaction by 7 percentage points** (p < 0.10).RCTLabour & employmentStandardized Employer Reference LettersYouth receiving automated recommendation letters earned US$1,349 more cumulatively across four years and stayed in jobs 0.36 months longer. In South Africa, women using reference templates saw higher application review rates and increased 3-month employment rates, closing gender hiring gaps.RCTCrime & justiceYouth Employment Program Incarceration and Mortality MitigationParticipation in the New York City Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) reduced the probability of serving prison time by 0.10 percentage points (a 10% reduction from a 0.99% baseline incarceration rate, resulting in 112 fewer youth imprisoned). SYEP participation reduced overall mortality by 0.073 percentage points (an 18% reduction from a 0.41% baseline mortality rate, saving 83 lives), with reductions concentrated among young men.RCTLabour & employmentYearUp Intensive Youth Sectoral Training ModelBy Year 3, participant annual earnings grew by $7,011 (a 40% increase, p < 0.01), driven by a 33 percentage point gain in IT sector employment (37% vs. 4%, p < 0.01) and a 9 percentage point gain in financial services (23% vs. 14%, p < 0.01). By Year 5, quarterly earnings remained $1,857 higher (a 33.5% increase, p < 0.01), generating $1.66 in public benefit per $1 spent ($15,349 net benefit per participant).RCT