Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

No 6278, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered characteristics, in particular, personality traits and tasks performed at work which are taken into account in addition to the standard individual specific determinants. Results show that tasks performed at work are strong predictors of training participation while personality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job related characteristics are controlled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off-the-job training and vanishes for on-the-job training.

Keywords: Oaxaca decomposition; working tasks; training; personality traits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2012-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-edu, nep-hrm, nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-neu
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Published - revised version published as 'Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Job Tasks and Firm Effects' in: Education Economics, 2016, 24(3), 261-279

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Working Paper: Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects (2012)
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