Employer provided training in Austria: Productivity, wages and wage inequality

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We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on productivity of about 0.04. In-house training is more effective than external courses, and language, administrative and personal skills courses are more effective than sales training and IT-courses. We find a significant relationship between training and wages, the coefficient is about 0.05. We find no significant effect of training on the inequality of wages within firms.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: NRN Working Paper, NRN: The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State ; No. 0927

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Firm Behavior: Theory ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Subject: employer-provided training ; productivity ; wages

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Böheim, René ; Schneeweis, Nicole ; Wakolbinger, Florian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State
• (where): Linz
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/115036
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET