Workplace Training in Europe

By Andrea Bassanini, Alison L. Booth, Giorgio Brunello, M. D. Paola, E. Leuven. Social Science Research Network, 2005

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This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources - the CVTS, OECD data and the European Community Household Panel. We outline the differences in training incidence and relate these differences to the private costs and benefits of training, and to institutional factors such as unions, employment protection and product market competition. We ask whether there is a case for under-provision of training in Europe and examine alternative policies aiming both at raising training incidence and at reducing inequalities in the provision of skills.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

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R&D, worker training and innovation: firm-level evidence (2016, unknown): “As Table 1 shows, Spain ranks at the bottom of the list of countries in both types of investments (see also Bassanini et al., 2005).”
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. (2005) for workplace training in Europe).”
The return to firm investments in human capital (2008, background): “Indeed, regressing current firm growth on past growth yields a negative coefficient, indicating that a year of firm growth is generally followed by a year of decline.(11) The evidence in section 4 will show that using only the first set of instruments will raise problems of weak instruments in our s”
The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm-Level Evidence (2015, background): “For an overview, see Bassanini et al. (2007). 2 These papers report mixed results but are based on limited samples (Bartel, 1995; Black & Lynch, 2001; Zwick, 2006). Moreover, they do not analyze wage and productivity premiums together. An exception is Dearden, Reed, and Van Reenen (2006), analyzing ”
Setting It Right: Employment Protection, Labour Reallocation and Productivity (2011, methodology): “13 Indeed, the evidence suggests that temporary workers are less likely to participate in job-related training (e.g. Albert et al. 2005; Bassanini et al. 2007) and tend to provide less effort when the probability of conversion of their contract into open-ended relationships is low (Dolado and Stucch”
A Road Map to Vocational Education and Training in Industrialized Countries (2015, methodology): “Our focus is on initial VET, in contrast to vocation-specific education and training as part of life-long learning (see Arulampalam, Booth, and Bryan 2004; Bassanini et al. 2007 for workplace training in Europe).”
Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence (2007, unknown): “We know that “learning begets learning”, and that this carries on from formal education to training opportunities (see Bassanini et al. 2006).”
Efficiency and equity of European education and training policies (2006, unknown): “29 A role for the state in furthering the efficiency of training systems might lie in improving information about training opportunities, setting appropriate legal frameworks and ensuring portability of skills (Bassanini et al. 2005).”
Innovation and skill dynamics: a life-cycle approach (2015, background): “Baumol (2004) calls attention to flexible and diversified teaching styles to explain differential productivity among scientists in the US and Europe, while Aghion et al.”
The return to firm investment in human capital (2005, unknown): “twice during the period 1995-1999.(10) Table 1 reports the descriptive statistics for the relevant variables in the analysis.”
The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2011, unknown): “A large number of studies focus on the wage effects of work-related training and are extensively surveyed in Bartel (2000), Dearden et al. (2006), and Bassanini et al. (2007).”
Why do low-educated workers invest less in further training? (2010, background): “…J31 I. Introduction The fact that low-educated workers participate less often in further training is well documented in the economic literature (Bassanini et al., 2007).1 Booth and Bryan (2007) show that firms often pay for their workers’ training, even when it is general, and Leuven and…”
The effect of training on productivity: The transfer of on-the-job training from the perspective of economics (2013, unknown): “Other studies, however, claim that these high returns to training overestimate the actual returns to training because the wage increase of those who participated in training cannot be contributed to the training as such (Bassanini et al., 2007; Haelermans & Borghans, 2011).”