WSQ training helped raise wages for workers: study

Singapore

After taking into account selection bias, the study by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) and SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) found that the real wages of workers who went for WSQ training were 0.8 per cent higher on average than their counterparts in a control group.

Trainees who are in the course of attaining WSQ full qualifications experienced a real wage premium of 5.8 per cent on average in the year following the training.