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Adult earnings > Technical skills in-classroom training (eAE) > Rosholm 2009

Detailed Information

Country	Country: Denmark
GDP per capita	44.864
Context details	General unemployed population without age limits
Age	mean: 31.52

2. Intervention

Implementation year	1994
Implementer	Government
Duration (months)	< 1 month
Cost	An average course of 2 weeks duration cost approximately 1,900 DKK per participant
Intervention details	Short technical course (2 weeks) in a public institution

Evaluation design	Randomized evaluation
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Complete sample	Hourly wage	N/A	N/A	810	Coeff: -5.86; SE:17.40; SD: 100.00
Complete sample	Hourly wage	N/A	N/A	810	Coeff: -5.39; SE:17.50; SD: 100.00
Complete sample	Hourly wage	N/A	N/A	810	Coeff: -1.72; SE:5.11; SD: 100.00
Complete sample	Hourly wage	N/A	N/A	810	Coeff: -1.58; SE:5.13; SD: 100.00

Study	Rosholm, Michael, and Lars Skipper. "Is labour market training a curse for the unemployed? Evidence from a social experiment." Journal of Applied Econometrics 24, no. 2 (2009): 338-365.