Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51973 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5591
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This finding is robust to a number of robustness checks. It also holds for older workers, suggesting that firm-provided training may be an important instrument to retain older workers at work.
Subjects: 
training
employment
human capital
older workers
JEL: 
C33
C35
J21
J24
M53
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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