Volume 22, Number 2 (Spring) 1987
Jimenez, Emmanuel and Bernardo Kugler. 1987. "The Earnings Impact of Traning Duration in a Developing Country: An Ordered Probit Selection Model of Columbia's Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje." Journal of Human Resources 22(2):228-247.
This study estimates the earnings impact of one of the most extensive in-service training programs in the developing world, Colombia's SENA, through a comparison of nongraduates' and graduates' earnings profiles. The possible influence of selection is corrected through the use of an ordered probit model to determine participation in short and long courses. The correction causes a significant decline in SENA's earnings effect. The results are robust with respect to alternative specifications of the selection model.
The authors are economists in the education sector of The World Bank. Jimenez is also a professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario. The authors would like to acknowledge an anonymous referee's comments, as well as the computing assistance of Messrs. Haeduk Lee and Kyuee-Ha Pahk, in the preparation of this paper. They also express their appreciation to SENA for making the data available for this study. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and should not be attributed to SENA or the World Bank.
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