Unwilling to Reskill? Experimental Evidence from Real-World Jobseekers

We thank seminar participants at Bank of Italy, Berkeley, Bocconi, CREST, Glasgow, Naples Federico II, OECD, Tilburg, Collegio Carlo Alberto and Queen Mary University of London. Marco Visentin and Clara Morelli provided superb research assistance. We would like to thank AFOL Metropolitana and its leadership for their partnership on this project, and in particular Simone Cerlini, Tommaso Di Rino, Mario Giaccone, Antonio Tursi and Maria Minervini. We thank Francesco Armillei, Sam Altmann, Elie Ofek, Miguel Espinosa and Antonella Trigari and Soumitra Shukla for advice. We gratefully acknowledge financial support by the PNRR - MUSA 6 project and by CEPREMAP. Sergio Inferrera gratefully acknowledges the support from the Economic

Social Science Research Council, grant number ES/Y001850/1. The study was pre-registered in the AEA-RCT registry with ID: AEARCTR-0011866. Delfino: Bocconi University, LEAP, IGIER. Garnero: OECD and IZA. Inferrera: Queen Mary University of London. Leonardi: University of Milan. Sadun: Harvard University, NBER and CEPR. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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