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Skills training programmes for unemployed workers in mature economies

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  • Martina Bazzoli
  • Gianni De Fraja
  • Silvia De Poli
  • Enrico Rettore
  • Enrico Rettore

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This paper studies the effects on long term labour market success of the provision of intensive skills training courses offered in 2013-14 to adult unemployed workers in the north-east of Italy. We find a substantial effect, which persists well into the fourth year after the beginning of the course. From a methodological viewpoint, we argue, as proposed by Angrist and Rokkanen (2015) that the set-up is equivalent to a randomised controlled trial, in view of the fact that the criterion which determines admission to the course is unrelated to the outcomes of interest.

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  • Martina Bazzoli & Gianni De Fraja & Silvia De Poli & Enrico Rettore & Enrico Rettore, 2023. "Skills training programmes for unemployed workers in mature economies," FBK-IRVAPP Working Papers 2023-07, Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (IRVAPP), Bruno Kessler Foundation.
    • Handle: RePEc:fbk:wpaper:2023-07
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    Keywords

    Active labour market policies; Trento; Unemployment training; Randomised control trial; Regression discontinuity design;
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
    • M53 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Training
    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models

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