The Effects of Training on Own and Co‐worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: This article identifies the effects of work‐related training on worker productivity by exploiting a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment and control groups combined with data on worker performance before and after training. We find that participation in the training programme leads to a 10% increase in performance. Moreover, we provide experimental evidence for externalities from training: An increase of 10 percentage points in the share of treated peers improves a worker’s performance by 0.51%. Furthermore, we find that the performance increase is not due to lower quality provided by the worker.
Source: The Economic Journal
Authors: Andries De Grip, Jan Sauermann
Institutions: IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Maastricht University
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1960957510