Does Comprehensive Education Work for the Long-term Unemployed?

Anders Stenberg () and Olle Westerlund ()

No 641, Umeå Economic Studies from Umeå University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper evaluates the effects of comprehensive adult education on wage earnings of the long-term unemployed, an essentially unexplored issue. We use register data pertaining to a large sample of long-term unemployed persons in Sweden who either enrolled in the comprehensive adult education program, participated in labour market training, or remained in open unemployment. We find that individuals with more than one semester at upper secondary level of the comprehensive adult education program experienced an increase in annual wage earnings compared with those who remained in open unemployment. For those studying at the compulsory level we find no significant effects. The estimated effects were overall negative in relation to vocational labour market training.

Keywords: Adult education; long-term unemployed; wage earnings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-11-01
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