| Date: | 2003- |
| Web: | Official website of the programme |
| Description: | The Youth and Employment Programme (PJE) aims to improve the employability of low-income young people at social risk through theoretical and practical job training in classrooms and a first work experience through internships in companies, in order to provide them with skills, knowledge and abilities for the execution of a trade and completing their formal educational training. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Unemployed young people between 16 and 29 years of age, from poor backgrounds, who did not complete secondary school. |
| Area of intervention: | Technical and vocational training |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | Categorical |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | Contract No. 1183/OC-DR and No. 1693-OC-DR, Interamerican Development Bank. Contract BIRF 7371-DO, World Bank |
| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Labour |
| Executing organization(s): | Ministry of Labour and the National Technical Vocational Training Institute (INFOTEP) |
| Source of funding: | Government of the Dominican Republic, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), World Bank |
1) Courses
| Recipient(s): | Programme participants |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Daily or weekly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct participant |
| Conditionalities: | Class attendance |
| Description: | The young people receive training that develops competitive skills such as group integration, mathematics, communication skills, work organisation and customer service, among others, as well as orientation tools for the job search. The courses have a duration of 4 months (150 hours). Participants receive a stipend of RD$70.00 per class attended to cover transportation costs, as well as life and accident insurance while they are taking the course and all course materials. |
| Amount : | DOP$ 70 per day |
2) Internships
| Recipient(s): | Programme participants |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Daily or weekly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct participant |
| Description: | The internships of young people linked to the Youth Employment Programme in selected companies are aimed at completing their job training and increasing their chances of entering the labour market. The internships take place during the last stage of the programme and last for a period of 2 months (240 hours). |
| Amount : | RD$ 70 per day |
Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program
| Author: | Ibarrarán, P. et al. |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Publication info: | IZA Discussion Paper Series No. 9136 |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact Evaluation |
Life skills, employability and training for disadvantaged youth: Evidence from a randomized evaluation design
| Author: | Ibarrarán, P. et al. |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Publication info: | IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2014, 3:10 |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact Evaluation |
Programa Juventud y Empelo, República Dominicana. Informe de evaluación de impacto para las cohortes 2008-2009.
| Author: | Vezza, E. et al. |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Publication info: | |
| Link: | |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Impacts of the Domincan Republic Youth Employment Program: Hard skills or Soft skills? Intermediate impact results.
| Author: | Martínez, S. |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Publication info: | |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
The labor market impacts of youth training in the Dominican Republic
| Author: | Card, D. et al. |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Publication info: | Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 29 No. 2, University of Chicago |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Evidencia experimental de los impactos de largo plazo de un programa de capacitación laboral para jóvenes1
| Author: | Ibarrarán, P. et al. |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Publication info: | |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Impact Evaluation of a Youth Job Training Program in the Dominican Republic: Ex-Post Project Evaluation Report of the Labor Training and Modernization Project
| Author: | Ibarrarán, Pablo; Rosas-Shady, David and Soares, Yuri |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Publication info: | Office of Evaluation and Oversight, Inter American Development Bank Washington, D.C. |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Impact evaluation |
Estudio cuantitativo/cualitativo sobre los vinculos entre los centros operativos del sistema (COS) y las empresas de pasantía del programa juventud y empleo. Informe final.
| Author: | Grupo Gestión Moderna |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Publication info: | Ministry of labor |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Quantitative and qualitative study |
Programa Juventud y Empleo en República Dominicana: Análisis de la percepción de los empleadores acerca de las pasantías y de las perspectivas de inserción laboral de los jóvenes
| Author: | Fazio, Maria Victoria |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Publication info: | Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington DC |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Qualitative study |
