Do Government Sponsored Vocational Training Programs Help the Unemployed Find Jobs? Evidence from Russia

Anton Nivorozhkin and Eugene Nivorozhkin
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Anton Nivorozhkin: Goteberg University

No 04-100, Upjohn Working Papers from W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Abstract: The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The results of propensity score matching indicate that training programs had a non-negative overall effect on the program participants relative to non-participants.

Keywords: Unemployment; transition economies; active labour market programs; evaluation; propensity score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J24 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-05
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