Assessing the impact of a training program on how long a job search
This paper estimes the average effect of the Spanish Training
Schools Program on the period needed to find a job. Three methods have been developed:
weighting on the propensity score, Heckman’s estimator and propensity
score-matching.
For the participants in the program, the number of days up to finding a job diminishes
in 471, 446 and 467, respectively, depending on the used estimator one.
There is a consistent evidence across methods that the program evaluated reduces
the necessary time to find a job.
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