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The training hypothesis, also known as the "job training hypothesis" or the "on-the-job-training hypothesis" is an area of study in , Vol. 48, No. 4 (May, 1980), pp. 1013-1029 JSTOR also available at REPEC "Minimum wages, on-the-job training, and wage growth. by Adam J. Grossberg , Paul Sicilian ''Southern Economic Journal,'' Vol. 65, 1999 Questia "the best test of the training hypothesis "Bartel, Ann P. "Earnings Growth on the Job and Between Jobs." ''Economic Inquiry,'' Vol. XVIII, No. 1, (January 1980), pp. 123-137. NBER

To explain the hypothesis, Linda Gottfredson writes:


Another approach has been to provide extra instruction or experience to very low-aptitude individuals so that they have more time to master job content. Both reflect what might be termed the training hypothesis, which is that, with sufficient instruction, low-aptitude individuals can be trained to perform as well as high-aptitude individuals. The armed services have devoted much research to such efforts, partly because they periodically have had to induct large numbers of very low-aptitude recruits. Even the most optimistic observers (Sticht, 1975; Sticht, Armstrong, Hickey, & Caylor, 1987) have concluded that such training fails to improve general skills and, at most, increases the number of low-aptitude men who perform at minimally acceptable levels, mostly in lower level jobs. "Why g Matters: The Complexity of
Everyday Life" by Linda S. Gottredson ''Intelligence,'' 24(1), 79-132. reprint



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