Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain

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We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a recognised vocational qualification and current union membership. Whilst being non-white, shorter current job tenure, and part-time or fixed-term employment statuses are all associated with less training. Furthermore, in line with recent non-competitive training models, higher levels of wage compression (measured in absolute or relative terms) are positively related to training.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1197

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Contracts ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Subject: training ; wage compression ; performance ; Weiterbildung ; Qualifikation ; Lohnstruktur ; Schätzung ; Grossbritannien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Almeida-Santos, Filipe ; Mumford, Karen
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20443
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET