Training in Europe

By W. Arulampalam, Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan. Social Science Research Network, 2004

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Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the period 1994-1999. We focus on 'lifelong learning', fixed-term contracts, part-time versus full-time work, public/private sector affiliation, educational attainment, and the individual's position in the wage distribution prior to training. Women are typically no less likely than men to train. While there is no significant training-age profile for women, there is a negative profile for men. In several countries there is a negative association between fixed-term contacts and training, particularly for men. In most countries and, for both sexes, training is positively associated with public sector employment, high educational attainment and a high position in the wage distribution.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World (2013, background): “Our focus is on the issue of initial VET, in contrast to vocation-specific education and training as part of life-long-learning (see Arulampalam et al. (2004) and Bassanini et al.”
Efficiency and equity of European education and training policies (2006, positive): “4 In their vast overviews of the empirical literature, mostly from the United States, Heckman and co-authors show that education is indeed a life cycle process that exhibits such dynamic synergies.”
The return to firm investments in human capital (2008, methodology): “Our instruments are valid as long as input decisions in period t − 1 are made without knowledge of the transitory shocks in the production and cost functions from period t+ 1 onwards.(5) (4)Dearden, Reed and Van Reenen (2006) and Conti (2005) estimate the differential effect of training on productiv”
Workplace Training in Europe (2005, positive): “Consistent with recent evidence (see e.g. Wooden and van den Heuvel, 1997, and Arulampalam et al., 2004), we find that women have, ceteris paribus, a greater probability of taking training than men, although the differences associated with gender are small (0.6 percentage points).”
Right for the Job: Over-Qualified or Under-Skilled? (2011, background): “In this situation, training can narrow the gap between skills acquired at schools and skills required on the job (Arulampalam et al., 2004) and contribute to the resolution of skill mismatch (van Smoorenburg and van der Velden, 2000).”
The return to firm investment in human capital (2005, neutral): “occurred during working hours).(5) With decreasing marginal product of labor (and because roughly 50% of training occurs outside normal working time) foregone productivity is much lower.”