title

'Estimating the return to training and occupational experience: The case of female immigrants'

author

'Sarit Cohen-Goldner and Zvi Eckstein'

url

'http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304407609002085'

abstract

'We formulate a dynamic discrete choice model of training and employment to measure the personal and social benefits from government provided training for a sample of high-skilled female immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel. We find that training has a significant impact on the mean offered wage in white-collar occupations, but not in blue-collar occupations. Training substantially increases the job-offer rates in both occupations. Counterfactual policy simulations show a substantial social gain from increasing the access to training programs, and the estimated model provides a good fit for within-sample, out-of-sample and aggregate trends using cross-sectional survey data.'

doi

'https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.09.009'

journal

'Journal of Econometrics'

year

'2010'

Undefined

'156'

'1'

'86 - 105'

'Structural Models of Optimization Behavior in Labor, Aging, and Health'

'0304-4076'

'Immigration, Occupation, Training, Transitions, Welfare'