Publications / Other reports / 2002 / 2002:010 Business cycles and the impact of labour market programmes
Business cycles and the impact of labour market programmes
Oslo: Department of Economics, University of Oslo (2002)
Pages: 51
By comparing mean outcomes for a large number of matched samples of participants and nonparticipants we estimate individual earnings effect of the Norwegian labour market training programme (LMT) targeted at unemployed adults in the years 1991-1996. The average training effect on the trained is positive, even after three years. The training effect is positively correlated with post-training job opportunities in the (local) labour market, when job opportunities are measured by time-varying human capital adjusted national and regionspecific exit rates from unemployment.The report is downloadable from www.oekonomi.uio.no/memo/