<p><p>The New Deal for Young People is the major welfare-to-work pro-gramme in the UK. It is a mandatory multistage policy targeted at 18- to 24-year-old unemployed people. This paper investigates the long-term effectiveness of the programme in terms of enhancing the (re-)employment probability of participating men. It exploits the eligibility rule to identify a suitable counterfactual relying upon a simple regression discontinuity design. The combination of job-search assistance, training, wage subsidies and job experience enhances employability by about 4.6 per cent and this effect lasts over different cohorts.</p></p>
Authors
Giacomi De Giorgi
Stanford University
Journal article details
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- ISSN
- Print: 0143-5671 Online: 1475-5890
- JEL
- J18, J23, J68
- Issue
- September 2005
Suggested citation
De Giorgi, G. (2005). 'The New Deal for Young People five years on' (2005)
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