%0 Report
        %A Almeida, Rita K.
%A Faria, Marta Lince de
        %T The Wage Returns to On-the-Job Training: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Jul
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8314
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8314
        %X Skills shortages and skill mismatch are a pressing concern for policymakers in several developing countries, and in East Asia specifically. Providing on-the-job training can be an effective policy tool to shape the skills of the existent workforce to the specific needs of the firms. This paper explores a unique data set of matched employer-employee data for Malaysia and Thailand to estimate the wage return to on-the-job training in these two countries. Exploring propensity score matching estimates, we show that the average wage returns to on-the-job training are 7.7% for Malaysia and 4.5% for Thailand. Furthermore, we find evidence that the wage returns to on-the-job training are higher for males than for females in Malaysia and that, for both countries, returns are higher for workers with at least secondary education.
        %K matched employer-employee data
%K wages
%K on-the-job training