The Effects of Training on Own and Co-worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: De Grip, Andries; Sauermann, Jan
• 署名单位: Maastricht University; Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC); IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02500.x
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 376-399
• 关键词: impact; identification; TECHNOLOGY; education; returns

摘要

This article identifies the effects of work-related training on worker productivity by exploiting a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment and control groups combined with data on worker performance before and after training. We find that participation in the training programme leads to a 10% increase in performance. Moreover, we provide experimental evidence for externalities from training: An increase of 10 percentage points in the share of treated peers improves a worker's performance by 0.51%. Furthermore, we find that the performance increase is not due to lower quality provided by the worker.