Castaño-Muñoz Jonatan, Rodrigues Margarida
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Spain.
Fundação José Neves, Portugal.
Comput Educ. 2021 Nov;173:104289. doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104289.
This paper investigates the effect that participation in massive open online courses (MOOCs) ecosystem can have on workers' labour market outcomes, mainly employment retaining. We use primary data collected between 2015 and 2017 and obtained from two surveys (pre-course and follow-up questionnaires) sent to participants in six MOOCs. The treatment group is composed of individuals participating in MOOCs in 2015 and the control group is composed of individuals who enrolled in MOOCs for the first time in 2017. Using a differences-in-differences approach, we find that participation in MOOCs can improve workers' employment retaining but not their wages. The positive effect on employment retaining is homogeneous in different geographical and economic areas and tends to be higher for individuals who have participated in more MOOCs in the past.
本文研究了参与大规模开放在线课程（MOOCs）生态系统对劳动者劳动力市场结果的影响，主要是就业保留情况。我们使用了2015年至2017年收集的原始数据，这些数据来自向六门MOOCs的参与者发送的两项调查（课前和后续问卷）。治疗组由2015年参与MOOCs的个人组成，对照组由2017年首次注册MOOCs的个人组成。使用差分法，我们发现参与MOOCs可以提高劳动者的就业保留率，但不能提高他们的工资。对就业保留的积极影响在不同的地理和经济区域是相同的，并且对于过去参与过更多MOOCs的个人来说往往更高。
