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

Sarit Cohen-Goldner; Zvi Eckstein

doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.09.009

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

Sarit Cohen-Goldner, Zvi Eckstein

Department of Economics

Tel Aviv University

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	86-105
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Econometrics
Volume	156
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.09.009
State	Published - May 2010

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Funding Information:
We received valuable comments from Chemi Gotlibovski, Bob LaLonde, Osnat Lifshitz and Yoram Weiss. Tali Larom provided excellent research assistance. Financial support from the Israeli Science Foundation grant # 884/01 is greatly appreciated. We also thank the Sapir Center for Development at Tel-Aviv University, the Falk Institute for Economic Research, the Ministry of Absorption and the Manpower Planning Authority in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor for their financial support.

Funding

We received valuable comments from Chemi Gotlibovski, Bob LaLonde, Osnat Lifshitz and Yoram Weiss. Tali Larom provided excellent research assistance. Financial support from the Israeli Science Foundation grant # 884/01 is greatly appreciated. We also thank the Sapir Center for Development at Tel-Aviv University, the Falk Institute for Economic Research, the Ministry of Absorption and the Manpower Planning Authority in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor for their financial support.

Funders	Funder number
Falk Institute for Economic Research
Manpower Planning Authority in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor
Ministry of Absorption
Sapir Center for Development at Tel-Aviv University
Israel Science Foundation	884/01

Keywords

Immigration
Occupation
Training
Transitions
Welfare

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