A dataset containing 1120 individuals from Sicily, an Italian region in which a labor market intervention through a temporary work agency (TWA) was offered. It includes 229 individuals assigned to TWA jobs in the first 6 months of 2001 and 891 controls aged 18-40, who were in the labor force but not in stable employment on 1 January 2001, and who were not on a TWA assignment during the first half of that year.
labormarketA data frame with 1120 rows and 32 variables:
age at time 2
blue-collar at time 1
number of children at time 1
dummy Catania
distance from nearest agency
employed at time 1
weekly hours of work at time 1
weekly hours of work at time 3
identification code
italian nationality
male gender
dummy Messina
out of labor force at time 1
fraction of school-to-work without employment
employed at time 3
dummy Palermo
non married
dummy Trapani
received professional training before treatment
temp at time 2 - treatment status
unemployed at time 1
monthly wage at time 1
monthly wage at time 2
monthly wage at time 3
years without employment at time 1
white collar at time 1
unemployed at time 3
out of labor force at time 3
low education
medium education
high education
education level
Ichino, A., Mealli, F., and Nannicini, T. (2008): "From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 23(3), 305-327.