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The retention effect of training: Portability, visibility, and credibility

This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees' retention in the training company. It for the first time empirically combines the human capital and the monopsony theory by jointly controlling for the portability, visibility, and credibility of training. Based on an extensive German linked-employer-employee data set with detailed information on training history (WeLL-ADIAB), we show that training increases employees' retention. We compare the probability to stay at the same employer between training participants and accidental training non-participants (those who could not participate in planned training on the basis of exogeneous reasons). Higher portability of general human capital contents and visibility of training induced by training certificates however reduce the retention effect of training. Retention is further reduced when training is credibly provided and certified by external institutions, the full training effect on retention is still positive, however. We are careful to control for endogeneity of training participation in retention equations, unobserved time-invariant effects, and extensive individual and employer characteristics including wage increases and general job satisfaction.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 16-011

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
Personnel Economics: Training
Thema
Labor Mobility
Turnover
Employment
Training

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dietz, Daniel
Zwick, Thomas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2016

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-406537
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dietz, Daniel
  • Zwick, Thomas
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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