On the Link Between On-the-Job Training and Earnings Dispersion

Said Hanchane () and Jacques Silber ()
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Said Hanchane: Institut d’Economie Publique (IDEP), Marseille, and Laboratoire d’Economie et de Sociologie du Travail (LEST), Aix-en-Provence
Jacques Silber: Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Institut d’Economie Publique (IDEP), Marseille

No 23, Economics of Education Working Paper Series from University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW)

Abstract: This paper is a first attempt to devise a methodology that allows estimating the exact impact of training on the dispersion of wages. It uses an approach originally proposed by Fields (2003) but extends it to the breakdown of inequality by population subgroups as well as to the case where the earnings function that is at the base of the analysis has to be adjusted for selectivity bias. The empirical illustration is based on a survey conducted in France at the end of the twentieth century.

Keywords: earnings’ dispersion; France; labour market segmentation; on-the-job training; overlapping; selectivity bias; unobserved heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2007-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-lab and nep-ltv
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Working Paper: On the Link Between On-the-Job Training and Earnings' Dispersion (2004)
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