Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20514 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 716
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, we investigate the impact of classroom training programmes on individual unemployment rates in Denmark. In 1994 a social experiment was conducted, where unemployed applicants for labour market training were randomised into treatment and control groups. We formulate and estimate experimental impact estimators of the effect of treatment on the treated. The experimental data is polluted by the presence of no-shows and crossovers, which implies that traditional experimental estimators are biased. Therefore we formulate and estimate an endogenous variables model (using the randomisation indicator as a perfect exclusion restriction) and implement various matching estimators. We find – surprisingly – that classroom training significantly increases individual unemployment rates. We discuss some possible reasons for this surprising finding and some related policy issues.
Subjects: 
classroom training
programme evaluation
social experiment
experimental and nonexperimental estimators
JEL: 
J68
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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