Artikel
The wage returns to on-the-job training: Evidence from matched employer-employee data
Skills shortages and skill mismatch are a pressing concern for policymakers in several developing countries, and in East Asia specifically. Providing on-the-job training can be an effective policy tool to shape the skills of the existent workforce to the specific needs of the firms. This paper explores a unique data set of matched employer-employee data for Malaysia and Thailand to estimate the wage return to on-the-job training in these two countries. Exploring propensity score matching estimates, we show that the average wage returns to on-the-job training are 7.7% for Malaysia and 4.5% for Thailand. Furthermore, we find evidence that the wage returns to on-the-job training are higher for males than for females in Malaysia and that, for both countries, returns are higher for workers with at least secondary education.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: IZA Journal of Labor & Development ; ISSN: 2193-9020 ; Volume: 3 ; Year: 2014 ; Pages: 1-33 ; Heidelberg: Springer
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
- Subject
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On-the-job training
Wages
Matched employer-employee data
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Almeida, Rita K.
Faria, Marta
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Veröffentlichung
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Springer
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Heidelberg
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2014
- DOI
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doi:10.1186/2193-9020-3-19
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Artikel
Associated
- Almeida, Rita K.
- Faria, Marta
- Springer
Time of origin
- 2014