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Temporary Work Agency (TWA) Assignments and Permanent Employment in Sicily
Description
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.
Usage
labormarket
Format
A data frame with 1120 rows and 32 variables:
- age
age at time 2
- blu1
blue-collar at time 1
- child
number of children at time 1
- ct
dummy Catania
- dist
distance from nearest agency
- emp1
employed at time 1
- hour1
weekly hours of work at time 1
- hour3
weekly hours of work at time 3
- id
identification code
- italy
italian nationality
- male
male gender
- me
dummy Messina
- nofl1
out of labor force at time 1
- nyu1
fraction of school-to-work without employment
- out3
employed at time 3
- pa
dummy Palermo
- single
non married
- tp
dummy Trapani
- train1
received professional training before treatment
- treat
temp at time 2 - treatment status
- unemp1
unemployed at time 1
- wage1
monthly wage at time 1
- wage2
monthly wage at time 2
- wage3
monthly wage at time 3
- yu1
years without employment at time 1
- white1
white collar at time 1
- unemp3
unemployed at time 3
- nofl3
out of labor force at time 3
- edu0
low education
- edu1
medium education
- edu2
high education
- edu
education level
References
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.