The effect of increased employer contacts within a labour market training program

Per Johansson and Sara Martinson ()
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Sara Martinson: IFAU - Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Postal: Labour Market Policy Evaluation, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden, http://www.ifau.se

No 2000:10, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: Using both register and survey data, two types of labour market training programs are compared. One program is part of the regular Swedish labour market training and the other, Swit, was initiated as an experiment during a two-year period, in an attempt to solve a bottleneck problem with people working with information technology. Enrolling in Swit increases the chances of finding employment by 20 percent, as compared to entering the conventional program, directed towards IT. The difference is due to the positive effect of more practical experience within Swit, which is especially large for individuals with a weak position on the labour market.

Keywords: Evaluation; Information technology; Employment rate; Propensity score matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2000-12-29
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