TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Crépon, Bruno
AU  - Ferracci, Marc
AU  - Fougère, Denis
        TI  - Training the Unemployed in France: How Does It Affect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?
        PY  - 2007/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3215
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3215
        AB  - Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find little evidence of an impact of such policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing-of-events methodology to control for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity, we find that training does not accelerate the exit from unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training duration, we find that longer training spells cause longer unemployment spells, but also longer employment spells, suggesting that training improves the matching process between jobseekers and firms.
        KW  - unobserved heterogeneity
KW  - multiple spells
KW  - unemployment duration
KW  - training programmes
        ER  -