Are the more educated receiving more training? Evidence from Thailand

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This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. We find a significant and negative relationship between educational attainment and on the job training and no significant relationship between education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case of off the job training. These findings are consistent with more educated individuals having higher marginal costs of training than less educated workers, especially where on the job training is concerned. Either the better educated have lower learning skills in jobs requiring on the job training or they have higher opportunity costs of training, or both.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 97.2002

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Subject: Training ; education ; wages ; Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte ; Betriebliches Bildungsmanagement ; Berufsbildung ; Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte ; Schätzung ; Thailand

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ariga, Kenn ; Brunello, Giorgio
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (where): Milano
• (when): 2002

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/119705
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET