The Effect of Job Training on Peruvian Women's Employment and Wages
The Effect of Job Training on Peruvian Women's Employment and Wages

Author: Ana María Arriagada

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 52

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Post -school training significantly improves the employment probabilities but not the wages for urban salaried and self -employed women in Peru, possibly because they train for low -paying jobs. Because their chances of receiving job training are largely determined by educational attainment, women with limited schooling also face training opportunities.

Occupational Training Among Peruvian Men
Occupational Training Among Peruvian Men

Author: Ana María Arriagada

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 72

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Postschool training offers significant benefits for private sector wage employees. Job-based and postsecondary training increase wages by 10 and 20 percent, respectively. But workers with limited formal schooling are unlikely to get job training, revealing that training and formal education are complementary investements in Peru.

Occupational Training to Reduce Gender Segregation
Occupational Training to Reduce Gender Segregation

Author: Hugo Ñopo

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 25

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This paper discusses program evaluation for ProJoven, the Peruvian youth labor training program. Complementing detailed fieldwork, the econometric work implements a two-stage matching procedure on propensity scores, gender and labor income. This allows identification of differentiated program impacts on males and females and attacks the problem of Ashenfelters Dips. The evaluation shows substantial differences in ProJovens impact for males and females. Eighteen months after participation in the program, employment rates for females improve by about 15 percent (while employment for males reduces by 11 percent), gender occupational segregation reduces by 30 percent, and females' labor income improves by 93 percent (while males' earnings increase by 11 percent). Nonetheless, gender equality promotion represents only 1.5 percent of ProJoven's budget. These results suggest that labor-training programs that promote equal gender participation have disproportionately positive effects on outcomes for women trainees in a labor market with substantial gender differences.

Gains in the Education of Peruvian Women, 1940 to 1980
Gains in the Education of Peruvian Women, 1940 to 1980

Author: Elizabeth M. King

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 52

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What determines girls' educational attainment? School quality (measured by the number of textbooks and teachers) changes in attitudes and better economic opportunities for educated women ; parents (especially mothers') years of schooling and occupations ; and the opportunity cost of sending a girl to school - especially in rural families, or when mothers must hold jobs outside the home.

The Peruvian Industrial Labor Force
The Peruvian Industrial Labor Force

Author: David Chaplin

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1400874890

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This is a sociological analysis of change and mobility in the labor force of thirteen of the largest textile factories in Peru. The book explores demographic and social variables such as age, sex, birthplace, migration, seniority, current and former occupations, and employment status as possible indices of rationality in the Peruvian labor market. There are two especially striking empirical findings: the Peruvian textile industry has not been plagued by the high levels of labor turnover generally assumed to be inevitable in underdeveloped countries; since 1955 women are being shut out of better-paying manufacturing jobs because of welfare laws that make them more expensive to employ than men. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.