Assessing the impact of a training program on how long a job search

José Manuel Cansino Muñoz () and Antonio Sánchez Braza ()
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José Manuel Cansino Muñoz: Universidad de Sevilla
Antonio Sánchez Braza: Universidad de Sevilla

INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2011, issue 19, 51-74

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Training programs evaluation; public policies; propensity score; Heckman’s two-stage estimator; matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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