The CIE of the “Work Experience for Graduates” (Work Experience Laureati e Laureate, WELL) was carried out within the Data Fitness Initiative, launched in February 2016 by DG EMPL and CRIE to promote the use of CIE for the assessment of European Social Fund interventions. In June 2016, CRIE established a collaboration with the Office of Statistics and Evaluation of Umbria Region (Italy) which provided the data and teamed up for the CIE. The WELL programme was financed by the ESF as part of the 2007-2013 Regional Operational Programme of Umbria Region, Italy. The aim of the programme was to increase the career prospects of unemployed graduates in the region. It consisted of two measures: (i) on-the-job training for unemployed graduates and (ii) wage subsidy to firms and organizations that eventually hired the trainee. The goal of the CIE was to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention in terms of employability of participants. In doing so, monitoring data of the programme were combined with administrative data from the Compulsory Communication Database (CCD) of the Italian Ministry of Labour, which records total hirings, renewals, transformations, and cessations of labour contracts in the private sector. The analysis was performed by means of propensity score matching. Results indicate that WELL participants are more likely to be employed. The positive effect is measured only for participants who found a job within the region boundaries. Policy implications are still drawn with caution and require some further crosschecking for potential unobserved factors. The limited number of variables in the matching impede the full attribution of causality. CRIE and Umbria Region agreed on extending the current analysis by including additional data on past labour market experience in the matching procedure, in order to strengthen the comparability of participants and non-participants and hence the identification of causal impact of the intervention.
GHIRELLI Corinna;
HAVARI Enkelejda;
SANTANGELO Giulia;
SCETTRI Marta;
2017-08-01
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC106430
978-92-79-68045-8 (print),
978-92-79-68044-1,
1018-5593 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 28563 EN,
OP KJ-NA-28563-EN-C (print),
OP KJ-NA-28563-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC106430,
10.2760/739316 (print),
10.2760/01166 (online),
