@techreport{Berger2001Worker,
abstract = {We use 1994-1998 data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to
measure the incidence and determinants of several types of worker training and to estimate
the effects of training on workers? interindustry, interfirm, and occupational mobility, their
labor force transitions, and their wage growth in Russia compared to the U.S. We
hypothesize that the shock of economic liberalization in Russia may raise the benefits of
training, particularly retraining for new jobs, but uncertainty concerning the revaluation of
skills may raise the costs, with an overall ambiguous effect on the amount of training
undertaken. The RLMS indicates a lower rate of formal training than studies have found for
the U.S., suggesting that the second effect dominates. Previous schooling is estimated to
affect the probability of training positively, but the relationship is much stronger for additional
training in the same field than for retraining for new fields, consistent with the hypothesis that
schooling and training are complementary but become more substitutable in a restructuring
environment. Additional training in workers? current fields is estimated to reduce mobility and
earnings, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition era. Retraining in new fields
increases all types of worker mobility and has higher returns than those typically observed for
training in the U.S., but it also raises the variance of earnings and the probability of
unemployment, consistent with a search view of such retraining. Given the large returns to
retraining, the efforts of Russian workers to learn new skills may increase as uncertainty is
resolved and restructuring proceeds.},
author = {Mark C. Berger and John S. Earle and Klara Z. Sabirianova},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J3; J4; 330; On-the-job training; restructuring; wage growth; human capital investments; Berufsbegleitende Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Bildungsinvestition; \"{U}bergangswirtschaft; Arbeitsmobilit\"{a}t; Bildungsertrag; Sch\"{a}tzung; Russland},
language = {eng},
number = {361},
title = {Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21221},
year = {2001}
}
