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Table A11 Balancing tests

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

 

Malaysia

 

Thailand

 
 

Treated means

Matched means

T-test

Treated means

Matched means

T-test

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Training other firm

0.323

0.332

-0.62

0.322

0.310

1.27

Woman

0.424

0.436

-0.17

0.558

0.554

0.41

Age of worker

33.396

32.930

1.88

32.610

32.605

0.04

Education

      

 Degree

0.137

0.136

0.02

0.257

0.253

0.47

 Diploma

0.193

0.200

-0.61

0.134

0.139

-0.69

 Upper secondary

0.416

0.408

0.54

0.216

0.220

-0.50

 Lower secondary

0.197

0.193

0.34

0.170

0.163

0.84

 Primary

0.052

0.055

-0.48

0.220

0.221

-0.15

 Illiterate

0.001

0.003

-0.77

0.003

0.003

-0.18

Vocational education

0.237

0.259

-1.72

0.070

0.072

-0.40

Potential experience

12.654

12.140

2.10

14.021

13.802

0.80

Tenure with the firm

7.566

6.996

3.14

6.107

6.055

0.52

Single

0.317

0.342

-1.77

0.366

0.368

-0.21

Studied abroad

0.079

0.073

0.71

0.011

0.012

-0.70

Unionized

0.075

0.070

0.63

0.021

0.018

1.47

Occupation

      

 Managers

0.208

0.204

0.31

0.075

0.078

-0.52

 Professionals

0.134

0.146

-1.19

0.098

0.094

0.70

 Skill production

0.344

0.339

0.30

0.300

0.295

0.58

 Unskilled production

0.119

0.122

-0.31

0.332

0.320

1.17

 Non-production

0.186

0.177

0.76

0.190

0.207

-2.12

 Apprentice

0.010

0.011

-0.44

0.004

0.005

-0.60

  1. Source: Authors’ calculations based on the Enterprise Surveys (World Bank).
  2. Note: The table reports balancing tests between the sample means of the variables listed. We contrast the means of the subsample of treated and untreated individuals. The t-test reported in column (3) and (6) for Malaysia and Thailand, respectively, verifies if the difference between the means of the variables reported is, for each country, statistically different from zero across the two samples. Treated individuals are those that participated in training, and untreated individuals are those reporting not having participated in training.