Do Government Sponsored Vocational Training Programs Help the Unemployed Find Jobs?
Author InfoAnton Nivorozhkin (Goteberg University) Eugene Nivorozhkin (University of Groningen) 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. Download InfoTo download: If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large.