Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2000-03-13
Number: 00-016/3
Author-Name: Bart Cockx
Author-Email: cockx@ires.ucl.ac.be
Author-Workplace-Name: IRES and Department of Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain
Author-Name: Isabelle Bardoulat
Author-Workplace-Name: IRES and Department of Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain
Title: Vocational Training: Does it speed up the Transition Rate out of Unemployment?
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.
Classification-JEL: C41; J24; J64; J68
Keywords: Vocational training; evaluation; transition models; job-search
File-Url: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/00016.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 330580 bytes
Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20000016