Job Training: Volumes, Profitability and Sources of Demand

拟议的工作涉及的问题显然对 社会：衡量学校后投资及其 盈利能力、投资量和盈利能力的变化 随着时间的推移，这些投资对经济的贡献 增长，这些投资的相互关系， 技术变革与学校教育之间的可替代性 以及毕业后的投资。这项工作将估计 全经济范围内对在职培训的投资，包括 工人和雇主投资承担的机会成本 在训练中这些估计将基于两个重要的 微观经济数据集-收入动态小组调查 和当前人口调查。得到的直接估计 将这些数据集与相同的估计值进行比较 成本基于工资概况。它们还将用于验证 人力资本对工资的解释。另一个重点 的工作是对这种类型的人力资本的反应， 对技术变革的贡献 从而促进经济增长。

The proposed work addressed issues of obvious importance to society : the measurement of post-school investments and their profitability, changes in investment volumes and profitability over time, the contribution of these investments to economic growth , the interrelation of these investments with technological change and the substitutability between schooling and post-schooling investments. The work will estimate the economy-wide investment in on-the-job training, including both the opportunity costs borne by workers and employer investments in training. These estimates will be based on two important microeconomic data sets - the Panel Survey on Income Dynamics and the Current Population Survey. The direct estimates obtained from these data sets are to be compared to estimates of the same costs based on wage profiles. They will also be used to verify the human capital interpretation of wage profiles. Another focus of the work is on the responses of this type of human capital formation to technological changes and the contribution made thereby to economic growth.