This research focuses on evaluation of the impacts of short-term vocational training
programs on earnings and likelihood of employment of young unemployed in Mongolia. The
evaluation will be based on the randomized controlled trial. According to the NSO Population
census data, in 2000, youth unemployment was 22.8 percent and in 2010 it was 20 percent. In
2008, the government has set a target to reduce youth unemployment to 2.5 percent by 2015.
Vocational training program is the most popular program among young unemployed and has
been implemented extensively during a last decade. Impact evaluation of the vocational training
program on likelihood of youth employment is crucial for labour policy in the future. The
research will collect data for both control and treatment group and estimate the impact.