TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Almeida, Rita K.
AU  - Faria, Marta Lince de
        TI  - The Wage Returns to On-the-Job Training: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
        PY  - 2014/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8314
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8314
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - matched employer-employee data
KW  - wages
KW  - on-the-job training
        ER  -