The Impact of Vocational Training on the Unemployment Duration

Joanna Landmesser ()

International Advances in Economic Research, 2011, vol. 17, issue 1, 89-100

Abstract: In this study, we estimate a semiparametric hazard model to assess the impact of vocational training on the duration of unemployment spells. Our research work is based on the data obtained from the District Labor Office in Słupsk, Poland from 1999 to 2007. We employ matching methods to take into account the potential sample selection problem, i.e., finding an adequate control group for the group of trainees. Therefore, we estimate a random-effects probit model for the likelihood of participation in a training program. The main question of this paper is whether the training significantly raises the transition rate from unemployment to employment in the short and the long run. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2011

Keywords: Program’s evaluation; Matching; Hazard models; C10; J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/s11294-010-9291-y

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