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Adult employment > Technical skills in-classroom training (eAEM) > Andrén 2006

Detailed Information

Country	Country: Sweden
GDP per capita	36.784
Context details	Unemployed persons who are job seekers and persons at risk of becoming unemployed. Both Swedish and foreign-born persons were eligible
Age	19-55, mean: 35

2. Intervention

Implementation year	1993
Implementer	Government
Duration (months)	5
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	All vocational training programs in Sweden

Evaluation design	Differences-in-differences
Cluster definition	N/A

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Foreign Born	Employment	N/A	6	13426	Coeff: -0.01; t-stat: 0.39
Swedish Born	Employment	N/A	6	13426	Coeff: 0.03; t-stat: 0.94

Study	Andrén, Thomas, and Daniela Andrén. "Assessing the employment effects of vocational training using a one-factor model." Applied Economics 38, no. 21 (2006): 2469-2486.