TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ci, Wen
AU  - Galdo, Jose C.
AU  - Voia, Marcel
AU  - Worswick, Christopher
        TI  - Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada
        PY  - 2015/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9007
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9007
        AB  - Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment for men and women. Availability of confidential data, along with a relatively rich set of observable covariates, lead us to the estimation of difference-in-differences matching models of the effect of employer supported course enrolment on wages. The estimated average treatment effects on the treated range from 5.5 to 7.2 percent for men and 7.1 to 9.0 for women. While high-skilled workers show disproportionally higher rates of participation in employer-supported training, we observe no wage premiums for these types of workers. Statistically significant positive wage returns are found, on the other hand, for low-skilled workers.
        KW  - Canada
KW  - return to adult training
KW  - propensity score matching
KW  - employer supported course enrollment
KW  - difference-in-differences model
        ER  -