Workplace education for hourly workers

Laurie J. Bassi
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Laurie J. Bassi: Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Georgetown University, Postal: Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Georgetown University

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1994, vol. 13, issue 1, 55-74

Abstract: Concerns about U.S. competitiveness have increasingly focused the attention of policymakers on the workforce and mechanisms that could be used to enhance both the quality and quantity of human capital in the workplace. This article focuses on basic skills education of hourly workers, precisely the type of human capital which is likely to be most underprovided by the private market. Five questions are addressed: First, what is the nature of workplace education programs? Second, why do some firms provide workplace education programs while others do not? Third, what, if any, characteristics distinguish those firms that provide workplace education programs from seemingly comparable firms that do not? Fourth, what, if any, evidence can be found identifying the effects of these programs on the firms that sponsor them? Fifth, what policies appear most likely to stimulate additional workplace education?

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.2307/3325090

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