Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21391 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 526
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some random event. The point estimate of the return to training consistently drops when restricting the comparison group this way. While the OLS estimate of the return to training participation is significantly positive, this is no longer the case when we use the new comparison group. This outcome suggests that a large share of what is usually interpreted as returns to training is actually the return to some unobservable characteristic.
Subjects: 
returns to training
treatment effect
JEL: 
J31
J24
C21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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