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The aim of this study is to evaluate five job qualification programs for young apprentices, in Goiás, a Brazilian State. We expect to contribute to the improvement and strengthening of the job training programs in developing countries.

We applied propensity score matching and extensions such as the generalized propensity score method (dose–response effect).

We found evidence of the heterogenous effects of the five job qualification programs on employability. We found that the duration of the programs influences employability in up to two years after the program.

This research is based on secondary data provided by the responsible institutions. The evidence is obtained through a nonexperimental method.

The research has implications for public or private institutions dedicated to the professional qualification of young apprentices.

The findings of the study provide some ways of comparing training programs, for young workers, that can be applied in different types of institutions.

This study provides new insight about the professional qualification of young apprentices, by comparing fives programs in Midwest Brazil.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether isolated illiteracy generates a barrier to knowledge about the Brazilian Federal Government’s Single Registry for social programs.

Based on information contained in the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicilios – PNAD) 2014, the propensity score matching method was combined with the algorithm proposed by Imbens (2015). The analyzed sample consists of two groups of illiterate individuals: isolated illiterates (IILs) (treatment group), which consists of only illiterate individuals who live with other illiterates; and proximate illiterates (PILs) (control group), which consists of illiterates who live with someone who is literate in the household.

Evidence indicates that IIL individuals are, on average, less likely to know about the single registry than PIL people.

The main limitation relates to the database since the only information available in the PNAD on the access to the single registry is for the year 2014.

The evidence found in the study reinforces the need to invest in the fight against illiteracy in Brazil.

Results show that a portion of the possible beneficiaries of social programs are still “invisible” to the government’s social protection networks, and this highlights the existence of possible errors of exclusion.

The paper compares two groups of illiterate people, a group that lives in an isolated illiteracy situation and the other that does not. It also assesses the effect of literacy externalities on the access to the Brazilian Single Registry.