Data and Code for: Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia

This project provides the replication package for the paper "Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia". The paper examines the impact of an experiment in North Macedonia in which vulnerable unemployed individuals applying to a subsidized employment program and being matched to a job opening are randomly selected to attend job interviews. Employers receive a subsidy which reduced by half the wage cost of a newly hired worker during the first year and compensated the firm for the training costs. We complement administrative employment records with survey data to study treatment impacts. Attending the job interview leads to an increase of 15 percentage points in the likelihood of being employed 3.5 years after the start of the intervention. Obtaining a job under the program results ina much larger effect of 50 percentage points. These long-term effects are larger for individuals with lower attachment to the labor market. Among these, we document positive treatment effects on both non-cognitive and job-related skills.