Back Vocational training and labour market outcomes: Evidence from Youth Guarantee in Latvia

Year of the evaluation publication:
2018

Country or region covered:
Latvia

Owner of the evaluation: 
European Commission

Type of owner:
public - international organisation

Year when the evaluation was conducted: 
2018

Sector:
Youth employment

Intervention described and evaluated: 
the vocational training (VT) programme introduced in Latvia in 2014 and targeted at unemployed youth

Methodological approach: 
This report uses counterfactual impact evaluation (CIE) methods (a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design (FRDD)) to estimate its causal impact on young individuals’ labour market outcomes. The Counterfactual Impact Evaluation (CIE) of the vocational training programme implemented in Latvia under the Youth Guarantee schemes was carried out within the "Data Fitness Initiative for CIE," launched in February 2016 by the Directorate General Employment, Social Afairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) and the Centre for Research on Impact Evaluation (CRIE) to promote the use of CIE for the assessment of European Social Fund (ESF) interventions.

Language of the evaluation:
English

Language of the Executive summary:
n/a

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