Vocational training fails the cost-benefit test: evidence from Turkey

By Sarojini Hirshleifer ,  Rita Almeida ,  David McKenzie and  Cristobal Ridao-Cano Rising unemployment in Turkey during the global financial crisis prompted the government to expand its provision of free vocational training. This column reports an evaluation of the newly introduced programme, which finds that the costs of training the unemployed exceeded the benefits...more
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