Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215900 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
EIB Working Papers No. 2020/05
Publisher: 
European Investment Bank (EIB), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
Using a representative sample of European firms, this paper studies whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decisions to invest in employee training. It combines survey data on investment activities with administrative data on financial statements to develop an index of financing constraints. It estimates that a 10 percent increase in this index reduces investment in training as a share of fixed assets by 2.9 to 4.5 percent and investment in training per employee by 1.8 to 2.5 percent. The paper documents that lower investment in training reduces productivity, and show that firms facing tighter financing constraints cut back the investment in training and tangible assets less than investment in R&D and software and data.
Subjects: 
training
financing constraints
Europe
JEL: 
J24
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-861-4675-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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