Excerpt from Private Sector Training and Its Impact on the Career Patterns of Young Workers

I. Introduction

While there have been numerous studies devoted to examining the Impact of governmental training programs on workers who have experienced difficulties in the labor market, there has been remarkably little research on the actual occurrence and consequences of training provided by the private sector. This training for young workers has been estimated to potentially cost over$25 billion a year In the U.S. Apart from governmental training programs, the discussion of the role of human capital Investments on wage determination has focused largely on schooling. Understanding the effect of schooling helps explain differences In levels of wages but does not go far in explaining shapes of wage profiles. Wage profiles Instead may be explained by a variety of factors including post-schooling human capital Investments. Unfortunately, while data on schooling is readily available, this type of data is not easily found on post-schooling Investments. Consequently, few researchers have been able to examine directly the Impact of private sector training on wages and many have had to infer the Impact of this source of human capital from the shape of wage profiles. Given the potential long term consequences of training (or lack of) in the early years of a workers labor market experience, it would be useful to have a better understanding of the early training experience of young workers and the long term Impact of this on their wages.

Studies such as Mincers (197A) fundamental work, Carmichael(1985), Chapman and Tan(1980), Hashimoto(1981), Ohashl (1983), Hanushek and Quigley(1985), and Gustman and Stelnmeler (1981)have attempted to model, theoretically andor empirically, the returns to on-the-job training and schooling. Most of these studies, however, have been constrained by the quality of the data available to them.

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