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An alternative approach to estimate the wage returns to private‐sector training
Author(s) -
Leuven Edwin,
Oosterbeek Hessel
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of applied econometrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.878
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1099-1255
pISSN - 0883-7252
DOI - 10.1002/jae.1005
Subject(s) - wage , training (meteorology) , point (geometry) , private sector , economics , econometrics , percentage point , event (particle physics) , labour economics , mathematics , finance , geography , economic growth , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , meteorology
This paper follows an alternative approach to identify the wage effects of private‐sector training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some random event. This makes the comparison group increasingly similar to the group of participants in terms of observed individual characteristics and the characteristics of (planned) training events. At the same time, the point estimate of the average return to training consistently drops from a large and significant return to a point estimate close to zero. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.