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Year: 2016 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,
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This paper examines whether export participation matters for job training. The paper draws on longitudinal worker-firm data for Brazilian manufacturing, linked with detailed records on training activity from the main provider. The analysis uses industry-specific exchange rate movements to generate exogenous variation in export status at the firm-level. The findings indicate that export participation tends to increase the share of workers who receive technical upgrading. The results also reveal that technical upgrading has positive returns to trainees within exporting firms. These findings support the hypothesis that exporting requires skill upgrading, and suggest that this is partially achieved by training firms' existing workforce.
Education --- Education for All --- Export Participation --- Job Training --- Labor Markets --- Labor Standards --- Linked Employer-Employee Data --- Primary Education --- Skill Upgrading --- Social Protections and Labor --- Tertiary Education --- Wages
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,
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In many countries safety nets consist predominantly of universal subsidies on food and fuel. A key question for policy makers willing to shift to targeted safety nets is under what conditions middle-class citizens would be supportive of redistributive programs. Results from a behavioral experiment based on a nationally representative sample in Jordan reveal that increasing transparency in benefit delivery makes middle-class citizens (particularly among the youth and low-trust individuals) more willing to forgo their own welfare to benefit the poor. Moreover, increasing transparency enhances the relative support for cash-based safety nets, which have greater impact on poverty compared with in-kind transfers, but may be perceived as more prone to elite capture.
Altruism --- Debt Markets --- Development --- Economic Theory & Research --- Experiments --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Labor Policies --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Poverty Reduction --- Redistribution --- Safety Nets & Transfers --- Services & Transfers to Poor --- Social Protections and Labor --- Transparency
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ISBN: 1464806454 Year: 2016 Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : World Bank Group,
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Labor demand --- Unemployment --- Wages --- Labor policy --- Manpower policy
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