What Works at Scale? A Framework to Scale Up Workforce Development Programs
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DOI: 10.29338/dp2019-01
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Keywords
workforce development; human capital; skills; provision and effects of welfare programs;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- J08 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics Policies
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2019-08-19 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-URE-2019-08-19 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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