An evaluation of government- sponsored vocational training programmes for the unemployed in urban Russia
利用俄罗斯一个工业城市2000年的失业登记和跟踪调查数据，用倾向得分匹配法评估政府职业培训对失业者月薪的影响，发现培训短期有效但一年后效果消失。
This is the first study on the effects of active labour market programs such as training in Russia. We use the data from the official unemployment register combined with information from the follow-up survey in a large industrial city in the year 2000. The method of propensity score matching was applied to learn whether participation in the training programmes increased the monthly salaries of participants. The findings suggest that individuals tend to benefit from the participation in the training programmes. However, one year later, this effect disappeared. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.