This study evaluates the employment effects of vocational labour market training in Finnish youth labour markets. We are especially interested in whether the timing of an intervention matters. We explore this issue by analyzing the monthly time paths of employment effects over an observation period of four years. The study adopts two different identifying assumptions in trying to identify the causal impact of training programmes, viz. conditional independence and the discontinuity in the probability of participation caused by the allocation of training to individuals over 20 years of age. Url or DOI http://www.vatt.fi/en/publications/latestPublications/publication/Publication_1… Authors Kari Hämäläinen Juha Tuomala Country Finland Publication Year 2007 Ranges Intervention Intervention Start Year 1998 Intervention End Year 1998 Evaluation Evaluation Start Year 1998 Evaluation End Year 2002 Policy field Training Classroom/vocational training Target group Labour market status Unemployed (All cat.) Young unemployed Details Funding Source Other Outcome Variable Employment status Data Source Administrative Evaluation Method PSM RDD
