Employer provided training in Austria: Productivity, wages and wage inequality

René Böheim, Nicole Schneeweis and Florian Wakolbinger

No 2009-15, Economics working papers from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Abstract: We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on productivity of about 0.04. In-house training is more effective than external courses, and language, administrative and personal skills courses are more effective than sales training and IT-courses. We find a significant relationship between training and wages, the coefficient is about 0.05. We find no significant effect of training on the inequality of wages within firms.

Keywords: employer-provided training; productivity; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2009-10
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