Did Employers in the United States Back Away from Skills Training during the Early 2000s?

C. Waddoups ()

ILR Review, 2016, vol. 69, issue 2, 405-434

Abstract: A number of recent studies suggest that employer-paid training is on the decline in the United States. The present study provides empirical evidence on the issue by analyzing data on employer-paid training from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, a nationally representative data set. The findings reveal a 28% decline in the incidence of training between 2001 and 2009. Very few industries were immune from the decline, and the pattern was evident across occupation, education, age, job-tenure, and demographic groups. A decomposition of the difference in training incidence reveals a diminishing large-firm training effect. In addition, the workforce appears to have had the educational credentials by 2009 that, had they occurred in 2001, would have led to substantially more training.

Keywords: training; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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