TRAINING, WAGE GROWTH, AND JOB-PERFORMANCE - EVIDENCE FROM A COMPANY DATABASE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: BARTEL, AP
• 署名单位: National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/298380
• 发表日期: 1995
• 页码: 401-425
• 关键词: earnings; PRODUCTIVITY; turnover; profiles; workers

摘要

A unique dataset collected from the personnel records of a large company is used to study the relationship between on-the-job training and worker productivity. The analysis shows how information contained in a company database is useful for eliminating heterogeneity bias in the estimation of training's impact on wages and job performance. Even when selection bias in assignment to training programs is eliminated, training is found to have a positive and significant effect on both wage growth and the change in job performance scores, thereby confirming the robustness of the relationship between training and productivity.