1 Reappraising the Job-Training Effect on Labor Market Outputs of Korean Women

Theoretical considerations of job training have been suggesting enough reasons why job training is important in labor market. It would be more crucial for female, because of the situation that female face in labor market. Job training of female would be one of the implements compromise or moderate labor market that tends to be in favor of male. In order to support this proposition, it would be the first step where providing accurate measure of effect of current job training. In this paper, I investigate the effect of job training for Korean female on wage. With using rich data set (KLIPS) from Korea Labor Institute, I could evaluate the effect of job training of Korean female during 1999-2005 with several econometric specifications, mainly RE model with controlling a group difference. Empirical analysis shows that Job training of Korean female has a positive and statistically significant effect (4.2 % per year) on wage rate. And job training that conducted in work place (OJT) seems to have a strong effect on female wage rate. On the contrary, public job training does not seem to work very well