Arulampalam, Wiji and Booth, Alison L and Elias, Peter (1996) Modeling Work-related Training and Training Effects Using Count Data Techniques. Working Paper. The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 448.
Arulampalam, Wiji and Booth, Alison L and Elias, Peter (1996) Modeling Work-related Training and Training Effects Using Count Data Techniques. Working Paper. The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 448.
Arulampalam, Wiji and Booth, Alison L and Elias, Peter (1996) Modeling Work-related Training and Training Effects Using Count Data Techniques. Working Paper. The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 448.
Abstract
This paper examines the impact of work-related training on expected wages growth, using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of a cohort of young men - the years from the age of 23 to the age of 33. We use hurdle negative binominal models to estimate the number of work-related training events. This approach, which has not been used for training before, allows us to account for the fact that more than 50% of sample members experienced no work-related training over the period 1981 to 1991. We find evidence of strong complementaries between past general education and training, suggesting that reliance on job-related training to increase the skills of the British workforce will result in an increase in the skills of the already-educated, but will not improve the skills of individuals entering the labor market with a low level of education. The results generated from the hurdle count model are subsequently used in estimation of the wages growth model. We find that each additional training event is estimated to increase wages growth by 0.7 per cent, for young men experiencing at least one training occurrence over the decade.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Count data models ; hurdle ; training ; skills segmentation ; wages growth |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
Depositing User: | Jim Jamieson |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2012 10:36 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2012 10:36 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/3189 |