Umeå Economic Studies, Department of Economics, Umeå University
No 579:
Comprehensive Education for the Unemployed - Evaluating the Effectson Unemployment of the Adult Education Initiative in Sweden (Kunskapslyftet)(Kunskapslyftet)
Anders Stenberg ()
Abstract: This paper evaluates the effects on unemployment of the
Adult Education Initiative (AEI) in Sweden. The AEI offered the unemployed
adult education at a compulsory or upper secondary level. The AEI is
compared with the vocational training part of Labor Market Training (LMT).
The study uses unemployment incidence and unemployment duration as outcome
variables, both measured immediately after completion of the programs. For
the incidence, selection on unobservables is taken into account while the
analysis of duration in unemployment considers both selection bias and
censored observations. The results indicate lower incidence following
participation in the AEI, but also, significant at the ten per cent level,
longer duration.
Keywords: Duration; incidence; unemployment; adult education; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: J64; (follow links to similar papers)
30 pages, April 5, 2002, Revised May 7, 2003
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