Revisiting the complementarity between education and training -- the role of job tasks and firm effects

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

Education Economics, 2016, vol. 24, issue 3, 261-279

Abstract: This paper addresses the question to what extent the strong positive correlation between education and training can be attributed to differences in individual-, job- and firm-specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered characteristics, in particular, job tasks and firm-fixed effects. The results show that once job tasks are controlled for, the difference in training participation between educational groups drops considerably. In contrast, firm-fixed effects only play a minor role. Moreover, we show that workers performing nonroutine tasks are considerably more likely to participate in training than workers with routine tasks.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2015.1006182

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