Does training boost the job finding rate of the unemployed ? Timing-of-events based evidence from Belgium
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the training programs offered to the unemployed in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium. More precisely, we are interested in the two following questions : (a) does training increase the job finding rate of the unemployed after the completion of their training ? (b) if so, is this increase big enough to compensate the so-called lock-in effect of their training ? To answer these questions, we rely on the Abbring and van den Berg (2003) timing-of-events approach and a very large administrative dataset. We find that training has an overall strong... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | working paper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Schlagwörter: | Training / Unemployment / Policy evaluation / Timing-of-events / Discrete duration model / Business & economic sciences / Special economic topics (health / labor / transportation.) / Sciences économiques & de gestion / Domaines particuliers de l’économie (santé / travail / transport.) |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26592809 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/240140 |