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dc.contributor.author | Berger, Mark C. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Earle, John S. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Sabirianova, Klara Z. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-28T16:20:29Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-28T16:20:29Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2001 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21221 | - |
dc.description.abstract | We use 1994-1998 data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) tomeasure the incidence and determinants of several types of worker training and to estimatethe effects of training on workers? interindustry, interfirm, and occupational mobility, theirlabor force transitions, and their wage growth in Russia compared to the U.S. Wehypothesize that the shock of economic liberalization in Russia may raise the benefits oftraining, particularly retraining for new jobs, but uncertainty concerning the revaluation ofskills may raise the costs, with an overall ambiguous effect on the amount of trainingundertaken. The RLMS indicates a lower rate of formal training than studies have found forthe U.S., suggesting that the second effect dominates. Previous schooling is estimated toaffect the probability of training positively, but the relationship is much stronger for additionaltraining in the same field than for retraining for new fields, consistent with the hypothesis thatschooling and training are complementary but become more substitutable in a restructuringenvironment. Additional training in workers? current fields is estimated to reduce mobility andearnings, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition era. Retraining in new fieldsincreases all types of worker mobility and has higher returns than those typically observed fortraining in the U.S., but it also raises the variance of earnings and the probability ofunemployment, consistent with a search view of such retraining. Given the large returns toretraining, the efforts of Russian workers to learn new skills may increase as uncertainty isresolved and restructuring proceeds. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x361 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J3 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J4 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | On-the-job training | en |
dc.subject.keyword | restructuring | en |
dc.subject.keyword | wage growth | en |
dc.subject.keyword | human capital investments | en |
dc.subject.stw | Berufsbegleitende Ausbildung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Berufsbildung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Bildungsinvestition | en |
dc.subject.stw | Übergangswirtschaft | en |
dc.subject.stw | Arbeitsmobilität | en |
dc.subject.stw | Bildungsertrag | en |
dc.subject.stw | Schätzung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Russland | en |
dc.title | Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 844181013 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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