Impacts of active labor market programs: new evidence from evaluations with particular attention to developing and transition countries

By G. Betcherman, K. Olivas. 2004

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What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World? (2012, background): “Overviews of evidence from mostly nonexperimental evaluations of programs that focus on training for the unemployed in developed countries (Dar and Tzannatos 1999) and developing and transition countries (Betcherman et al. 2004) have found the existing evidence to be mixed, at best.”
Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India (2017, background): “See Annex 2 of Betcherman, Olivas, and Dar (2004) for a complete list of countries and details on skill building and other labor market training programs. than women in the control group.”
Interventions to Improve the Labour Market Outcomes of Youth: A Systematic Review of Training, Entrepreneurship Promotion, Employment Services and Subsidized Employment Interventions (2017, background): “However, pure training programmes have not proven to be particularly successful in many contexts (Betcherman et al., 2004).”
Jobs for Shared Prosperity: Time for Action in the Middle East and North Africa (2013, background): “…works seem to have a positive impact on employment outcomes only in the short run, they have the potential to generate effects that endure beyond the life of the program by developing infrastructure and providing market-relevant skills (Dar and Tzannatos 1999; Betcherman, Olivas, and Dar 2004).”
How Effective are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence (2017, background): “The heavily cited update of this work by Betcherman, Olivas, and Dar (2004) added 39 additional evaluations from developing and transition countries, of which only four drew on randomized experiments, and of which only one (Galasso, Ravallion, and Salvia 2004) was published in an academic journal.”
Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment: What Works? (2014, methodology): “This analysis and a review on the same topic by Betcherman, Olivas, and Dar (2004) conclude that these large government programs tend to increase employment but not wages, and they raise the issue of possible negative ‘spillover’ effects on the jobs and wages of people who do not participate as…”
The Changing Nature of the School-to-Work Transition Process in OECD Countries (2007, background): “…but drawing on surveys of the evaluation literature, successful programmes appear to share some characteristics (see Martin and Grubb, 2001, and Betcherman et al., 2004): • Early action is particularly important for young people as those without work experience are generally not entitled to…”
Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity (2011, background): “Betcherman et al. (2004) provide an overview on the effectiveness of ALMP in developing and transition countries and find some positive results for employment services while training measures, public works and wage subsidies are rather unsuccessful. For Germany, Fitzenberger et al. (2008) and Lechne”
The Labor Market Impacts of Youth Training in the Dominican Republic (2011, background): “1 See Heckman, Lalonde, and Smith (1999) for a general overview of training programs and Betcherman, Olivas, and Dar (2004) for a recent summary that includes some evaluations of developing country training programs.”
Soft Skills or Hard Cash? The Impact of Training and Wage Subsidy Programs on Female Youth Employment in Jordan (2012, methodology): “Several non-experimental studies have found some positive impacts (e.g. Katz, 1998), although an overview of different wage subsidy evaluations by Betcherman et al. (2004) concluded that such programs have largely not been effective in developed countries.”
For Protection and Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets (2008, unknown): “SOURCE: Betcherman, Olivas, and Dar 2004.”