The wage returns to on-the-job training: evidence from matched employer-employee data

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table A10 Wage returns to job training in Thailand

	(1)	(2)	(3)
Training in the firm	0.284***	0.062***	0.042***
	[0.022]	[0.014]	[0.015]
Degree		0.752***	0.743***
		[0.065]	[0.069]
Diploma		0.477***	0.454***
		[0.063]	[0.068]
Upper secondary		0.295***	0.283***
		[0.061]	[0.066]
Lower secondary		0.176***	0.178**
		[0.060]	[0.065]
Primary		0.056	0.087
		[0.059]	[0.064]
Vocational education		-0.012	-0.030
		[0.024]	[0.024]
Woman		-0.168***	-0.163***
		[0.013]	[0.012]
Age of worker		0.026***	0.022***
		[0.007]	[0.006]
Tenure with the firm		0.035***	0.032***
		[0.004]	[0.004]
Potential experience		0.009***	0.008***
		[0.001]	[0.001]
Single		-0.031**	-0.046***
		[0.013]	[0.012]
Manager		0.568***	0.585***
		[0.041]	[0.041]
Professional		0.198***	0.190***
		[0.028]	[0.027]
Skill production		-0.025	-0.020
		[0.018]	[0.019]
Unskilled production		-0.180***	-0.179***
		[0.018]	[0.019]
Apprentice		-0.081	-0.186**
		[0.124]	[0.125]
Unionized		0.028	-0.079
		[0.056]	[0.053]
Computer		0.214***	0.189***
		[0.018]	[0.017]
Bank account		0.111***	0.087***
		[0.019]	[0.019]
Transaction internet		0.312***	0.281***
		[0.064]	[0.060]
Training at the previous firm		0.011	0.027**
		[0.016]	[0.015]
Firm base specification	No	No	Yes
Observations	9418	9418	9418

Source: Authors’ calculations based on the Enterprise Surveys (World Bank).
Note: The table reports the estimates for equation 5 in the text. Robust standard errors, clustered at firm level, are in brackets. * significant at 10%, ** significant at 5%, *** significant at 1%. The dependent variable is the log hourly wage. Column (1) only controls for job training, column (2) adds baseline worker characteristics as in column (8) of Table A7 and A8. Column (3) adds firm baseline characteristics as in column (7) of Tables A5 and A6. Illiterate and Non-production workers are the omitted education and occupation groups. Age squared, Tenure squared and Experience squared are also included in the regressions (not reported).