Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55098 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5976
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment and control groups with panel data on individual worker performance before and after training. We find that participation in the training programme leads to a 10 percent increase in performance. Moreover, we provide experimental evidence for externalities from treated workers on their untreated teammates: An increase of 10 percentage points in the share of treated peers leads to a performance increase of 0.51 percent. We provide evidence that the estimated effects are causal and not the result of employee selection into and out of training. Furthermore, we find that the performance increase is not due to lower quality provided by the worker.
Subjects: 
training
field experiment
peer effects
productivity
JEL: 
J24
M53
C93
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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