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Work-Related Training and Wages: An Empirical Analysis for Male Workers in Switzerland

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Gerfin, Michael () (University of Bern and IZA Bonn)

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Work-related training is considered to be very important for providing the workforce with the necessary skills for maintaining and enhancing the competitiveness of the firms and the economy. On the individual level, the primary effect of training should be an increased productivity of the trained workers. This paper provides estimates of the effects of training on wages which can be seen as a lower bound for the effects on productivity. Based on panel data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS) I estimate these effects using nonparametric matching methods. Training is measured either as firm-sponsored training or as any work-related training. The data show that multiple participation in work-related training is not a rare event. This complicates the analysis considerably because the evaluation of dynamic treatments is not yet fully developed. As a solution to this problem a heuristic difference-in-differences approach to estimate the incremental effect of further training events is used. The results indicate that it is important to account for multiple training events. Taken together, there are significant effects of work-related training on wages of roughly 2% for each training event. There is some evidence that workers who already have high earnings profit more from continuous work-related training.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1078.

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Keywords: Training; Wages; Nonparametric Matching;

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I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods

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  1. Burgert, Derik, 2006. "Betriebliche Weiterbildung und der Verbleib Älterer im Betrieb," MPRA Paper 5742, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  2. Michael Gerfin, 2003. "Firm-sponsored Work-Related Training in Frictional Labour Markets: An empirical analysis for Switzerland," Diskussionsschriften dp0317, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft. [Downloadable!]
  3. Gerfin, Michael, 2004. "Firm-Sponsored General Training in Frictional Labour Markets: An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland," IZA Discussion Papers 1077, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  4. Muehler, Grit & Beckmann, Michael & Schauenberg, Bernd, 2007. "The Returns to Continuous Training in Germany: New Evidence from Propensity Score Matching Estimators," ZEW Discussion Papers 07-048, ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
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