Affiliation:
1. Department of Economics, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina in Zilina, Univerzitna 8125/1, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia
Abstract
The contribution for graduate practice is one of the measures of active labour market policy in Slovakia aimed at gaining first job experience and contacts for young school-graduates. The main aim of the study is a counterfactual impact evaluation of this contribution on the employability of its participants. The evaluation is aimed at the period 2015-2017 and realized using the real database of 12,953 treated eligible participants of Graduate practice and 83,907 non-treated controls. For the evaluation, propensity score matching was used, where the propensity scores were estimated by the method of Classification and Regression Trees. The results of the study show that treated individuals were employed on average 3 months longer and had an average salary of € 216.76 higher than non-treated during the 24-months impact period after the intervention.
Publisher
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
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