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The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed : Experimental Evidence from Turkey / Hirshleifer, Sarojini
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Hirshleifer, Sarojini
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Access & Equity in Basic Education.
- Active Labor Market Programs.
- Education.
- Education For All.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor Policies.
- Primary Education.
- Private Provision.
- Randomized Experiment.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Vocational Training.
- Local Subjects:
- Access & Equity in Basic Education.
- Active Labor Market Programs.
- Education.
- Education For All.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor Policies.
- Primary Education.
- Private Provision.
- Randomized Experiment.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Vocational Training.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (45 pages)
- Other Title:
- Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2014
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- A randomized experiment is used to evaluate a large-scale, active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low attrition enables precise estimation of treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average impact of training on employment is positive, but close to zero and statistically insignificant, which is much lower than either program officials or applicants expected. Over the first year after training, the paper finds that training had statistically significant effects on the quality of employment and that the positive impacts are stronger when training is offered by private providers. However, longer-term administrative data show that after three years these effects have also dissipated.
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