Table 4 Evaluation studies on labor market training
From: Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Author | Country | Treatment | Sample | Horizon | Estimation | Employment | Unemployment | Education | Quality/Wages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Winter-Ebmer (2006) | Austria | School-based, full-time retraining courses and coaching | Unemployed ≤26, lay-offs at Steel Factory | Five years after treatment | Tobit IV | 0 | n/a | n/a | + |
Jensen et al. (2003) | Denmark (1) | Introduction of vocational education program with 50% reduction of UB during participation | Unemployed 16 to 24 years, long-term unemployed, low education levels. | Up to 10 months after introduction | Competing risk duration model | 0 | n/a | + | 0 |
Hämäläinen and Ollikainen (2004) | Finland | Labor Market Training school-based, various durations Youth Practical Training: paid training within a firm | First-time unemployed youth, between 16 and 30 years | 5 years after entry | Propensity Score Matching | LMT: + YPT: 0 | LMT 0 YPT: 0 | LMT - YPT: 0 | LMT + YPT: 0 |
Bonnal et al. (1997) | France (1) | Workplace training on a temporary contract | Young men who were less than 26 years, low or high levels of education | Directly after participation, 6–12 months and > 12 months after participation | Multiproportional hazard model with unobserved heterogeneity | Low educ: + high educ: 0/- | Low educ: - high educ: 0/ + | n/a | + (probability of employment over 1 year) |
Brodaty et al. (2011) | France (2) | General or job-oriented practical training | Low-skilled unemployed below 27 years | Up to 6 month after treatment | Propensity Score Matching with PS derived from a competing-risk duration model | 0 (relative to JCS) - relative to fixed-term contracts | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Cavaco et al. (2004) | France (3) | Retraining and job seeking assistance for 6 months | Recently displaced workers with min 2 years experience in the firm, <25 years | Up to 3 years after program entry | Generalized Tobit Model with multiple selectivity criteria | + | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Achatz et al. (2012) | Germany (1) | Short coaching or classroom training | 18–30 year old recipients of means-tested UB benefits entering treatment within 9 weeks of start of receipt | Up to 30 months | Propensity Score Matching | + | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Bernhard and Kruppe (2012) | Germany (2) | Medium- to long-term labor market training based on vouchers | Unemployed between 15 to 24 | Up to 28 month after program entry | Propensity Score Matching | + | 0 | n/a | n/a |
Caliendo et al. (2011) | Germany (5) | Classroom based training programs | Unemployment entrants up to 25 years, East and West separately, high/low previous education (lE,hE,lW,hW) | Up to 5 years after treatment entry | Propensity Score Weighting | lE: 0 hE: + lW: + hW: + | n/a | lE: - hE: - lW: - hW: - | n/a |
Hartig et al. (2008) | Germany (6) | Short coaching or classroom training | Unemployed between 15 to 25 years, receiving means-tested benefits, by East/West/ Male/Female (Wm, Wf, Em, Ef) | Up to 25 months after treatment entry | Propensity Score Matching | Wm: + Wf: 0 Em: 0 Ef: 0 | Wm: 0 Wf: 0 Em: 0 Ef: 0 | n/a | n/a |
Wolff and Jozwiak (2007) | Germany (9) | Short classroom training | Unemployed 15–24 receiving means-tested unemployment benefits | Up to 20 months after program start | Propensity Score Matching | Men: + women: 0 | Men: 0 women: + | n/a | n/a |
Hardoy (2005) | Norway | Mix of classroom and firm-based training, max 6 months with potential subsequent program participation | Unemployment entrants between 16 to 25 | 2 years after unemployment entry | Structural discrete choice model with selection | - | + (also ALMP participation) | - | n/a |
Hardoy (2005) | Norway | Classroom training for work-related skills, up to 5 months | Unemployment entrants between 16 to 25 | 2 years after unemployment entry | Structural discrete choice model with selection | - | + (also ALMP participation) | - s | n/a |
Carling and Larrson (2005) | Sweden (2) | Youth Guarantee (workplace training, classroom trainig, mix of the two) within 100 days of unemployment entry | 20 to 24 year old unemployment entrants | 18 months years after unemployment entry | DIDID, using variation in time, age and municipality dimensions | n/a | - | n/a | n/a |
Costa Dias et al. (2013) | Sweden (3) | Practical labor market training (mostly work) | Unemployment men 20 to 24 years | 1 and 2 years after unemployment registrations | Propensity Score Matching with IV-correction exploiting age-eligibility cut-offs | - | + | + (upon request) | n/a |
Forslund and Skans (2006) | Sweden (5) | Youth practice vs. classroom training | Unemployed youth between 20 and 24 | Up to two years after program entry | Propensity Score Matching, Regression | + | 0 | n/a | + |
Larrson (2003) | Sweden (6) | Labor market training of different durations | First-time unemployed youth 20 to 24 years | One and two years after program start | Propensity Score Matching | 0 | n/a | 0 | - |
Andrén and Gustafsson (2004) | Sweden (7) | Labor market training | Unemployed entering training 20–25, different cohorts: T1(84/85), T2(87/88), T3(90/91) | Average of three years after treatment entry | Selection model with random coefficient | n/a | n/a | n/a | T1: 0 T2: + T3: + /0 |
Dorsett (2006) | UK (3) | Full-time education (FTET) relative to other NDYP-options | Unemployed male UB benefit claimants for longer than 6 months, 18 to 24 years | Up to 1.5 years | Propensity Score Matching | -/0 (relative to JCS, WS, and extended job search) | + (rel. to WS), -/0 (relative to JCS and extended job search) | n/a | n/a |