Do government sponsored vocational training programmes help the unemployed find jobs?

Abstract

"The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programmes for the unemployed in urban Russia. The results of propensity score matching indicate that training programmes had a non-negative overall effect on the programme participants relative to non-participants." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Nivorozhkin, A. & Nivorozhkin, E. (2007): Do government sponsored vocational training programmes help the unemployed find jobs? Evidence from Russia. In: Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 14, No. 1, p. 5-10. DOI:10.1080/13504850500425295