Does Learning Beget Learning Throughout Adulthood? Evidence from Employees' Training Participation

Anica Kramer and Marcus Tamm

No 9959, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between education and training is causal. The identification is based on exogenous variation in years of education due to a reform of the schooling system and the buildup of universities. Results confirm that education has a significant impact on training participation during working life.

Keywords: returns to schooling; lifelong learning; training (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I24 I26 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2016-05
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Published - substantially revised version published as 'Does learning trigger learning throughout adulthood? Evidence from training participation of the employed population' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 82-90

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