This paper follows an alternative approach to identify the wage effects of private-sector training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some random event. This makes the comparison group increasingly similar to the group of participants in terms of observed individual characteristics and the characteristics of (planned) training events. At the same time, the point estimate of the average return to training consistently drops from a large and significant return to a point estimate close to zero. Url or DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.1005 Authors Edwin Leuven Hessel Oosterbeek Country Netherlands Publication Year 2008 Ranges Intervention Intervention Start Year 2000 Intervention End Year 2001 Evaluation Evaluation Start Year 2001 Evaluation End Year 2001 Policy field Training On-the-job training Target group Labour market status Employed Details Funding Source Other Outcome Variable Income/wages Data Source Survey Evaluation Method PSM
