The impact of training vouchers on low-skilled workers
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Keywords
Training; Vouchers; Individual learning accounts; Experiment; Deadweight loss;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- M53 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Training
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