Persistence in the determination of work-related training participation: evidence from the BHPS, 1991-1997

Panos Sousounis () and Robin Bladen-Hovell
Additional contact information
Panos Sousounis: Department of Economics, University of the West of England
Robin Bladen-Hovell: Keele University

No 918, Working Papers from Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the role of workers‘ training history in determining current training incidence. The analysis is conducted on an unbalanced sample comprising information on approximately 5000 employees from the first seven waves of the BHPS. Training participation is modelled as a dynamic random effects probit model where the effects of unobserved heterogeneity and initial conditions are accounted for in a fashion consistent with methods proposed by Chamberlain (1984) and Wooldridge (2002) respectively. The results suggest that prior training experience is a significant determinant of a worker‘s participation in a current training episode comparable with other formal educational qualifications.

Keywords: Training; state dependence; dynamic probit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2009-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hrm and nep-lab
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://carecon.org.uk/DPs/0918.pdf First version, 2009 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uwe:wpaper:0918

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jo Michell ().