Vocational Training: Does it speed up the Transition Rate out of Unemployment?

Bart Cockx and Isabelle Bardoulat
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Isabelle Bardoulat: IRES and Department of Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain

No 00-016/3, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on therate of transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases theunemployment duration of non-participants, an effect neglected in programme evaluations. We propose a "controlfunction" estimator accounting for variable treatment effects and identifying the average treatment effect on thetreated by means of exogenous sub-regional variation in the training capacities. During participation, thetransition rate decreases by 27%. Afterwards it increases by 62%. Making training available for a broader populationwould, however, reduce the effectiveness of the programme.

Keywords: Vocational training; evaluation; transition models; job-search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J24 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-03-13
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