Is labour market training a curse for the unemployed? Evidence from a social experiment
基于1994年丹麦的社会实验，发现课堂培训显著提高了失业者的失业率并降低了就业能力，讨论了可能原因和政策启示。
Abstract In 1994 a social experiment was conducted in Denmark, where unemployed applicants for classroom training were randomised into treatment and control groups. The data are contaminated by the presence of no‐shows and crossovers, biasing the traditional experimental estimator. We interpret our experiment within an economic model of agents maximising outcomes facing different cost regimes and present results interpretable within this model. Surprisingly, we find that classroom training significantly increases individual unemployment rates and decreases employability. We discuss possible reasons for this finding and some related policy issues. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.