Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany

John Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn and Annika Pfister (pfister@uni-trier.de)
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Annika Pfister: University of Trier

No 11054, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten liquidation to a firm. We take this as evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship. We also make clear that while this relationship is very evident for the service sector it is largely missing for manufacturing where we confirm earlier results of no relationship.

Keywords: competition; employer provided training; manufacturing; services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 L00 M53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2017-09
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Published - revised version published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, 29 (2), 533-556

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