TY  - GEN
AU  - Busso, Matías
AU  - Cristia, Julian P.
AU  - Garofalo, Pablo
AU  - Messina, Julián
TI  - The Effectiveness of Adult Retraining: Evidence from a Meta-Analytic Review
PY  - 2022
Y1  - 2022/08/18
DO  - 10.18235/0004418
AB  - We report the results of a meta-analytic review of the effectiveness of programs designed to retrain workers. The review focuses on studies that rely on identification strategies designed to obtain credible causal effects. We analyze a total of 40 programs that provided skills to unemployed workers and focus on two outcomes: the probability of finding a job and wages. We find that the probability of finding a job of program participants increases on average by 2.6 percentage points after the program and wages increase by 0.08 of a standard deviation. Programs that provide technical skills, those that combine in-classroom with on-the-job training and those provided in partnership with the private sector seem to be more effective.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0004418
ER  -