Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/319868 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] Socio-Economic Review [ISSN:] 1475-147X [Volume:] 22 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Oxford University Press [Place:] Oxford [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 195-222
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Abstract: 
Less-educated workers have the lowest participation rates in job-related further training across the industrialized world, but the extent of their disadvantage varies. Using data on 28 high- and middle-income countries, we assess different explanations for less-educated workers’ training disadvantage relative to intermediate-educated workers, with a focus on the role of labor market allocation (i.e. job tasks, other job features and firm characteristics). Shapley decompositions reveal a broadly similar pattern for all countries: differences in labor market allocation between less- and intermediate-educated workers are more important for explaining the training gap than differences in individual learning disposition (i.e. cognitive skills and motivation to learn). Our analysis further suggests that the training gap is related to educational and labor market institutions and that labor market allocation processes play a key role in mediating any institutional ‘effects’. Strong conclusions regarding the role of institutions are hampered by the small country-level sample, however.
Subjects: 
inequality in adult training
skills
labor market allocation
Shapley decomposition
labor market institutions
education systems
JEL: 
I24
J24
J5
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)

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