Private Sector Training in the United States: Who Gets It and Why

This document discusses some dimensions of post-school training in the United States--who gets trained, what are the types of training, who provides it, and how training affects subsequent labor market outcomes. An introduction discusses reasons for the research questions and the reliability of exis...

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Main Author Tan, Hong W
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.02.1989
Subjects
Adult Vocational Education
Career Ladders
Corporate Education
Employer Employee Relationship
Industrial Training
Job Training
Labor Force Development
Outcomes of Education
Skill Development
Student Characteristics
Trainers
Training Objectives
Work Environment
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Summary:This document discusses some dimensions of post-school training in the United States--who gets trained, what are the types of training, who provides it, and how training affects subsequent labor market outcomes. An introduction discusses reasons for the research questions and the reliability of existing reported measures of training. An overview describes the most important data sources which contain self-reported training measures and the limitations of this information. The overview also contains a broad description of who gets trained, by whom, the types of training provided, and estimates of how much training is provided. The determinants of training are taken up in the next section. The determinants investigated include educational attainment, industrial rates of technical change, labor market experience, race, union membership, and labor market conditions. The final section addresses the effects of training on earnings, earnings growth, and employment stability. The document includes a 30-item bibliography and an appendix with five tables. Twenty other tables appear in the text. (CML)
Bibliography:Paper presented at the Conference on Employer-Sponsored Training (Alexandria, VA, December 1-2, 1988). Small type throughout. For related documents, see ED 283 020, ED 290 881, ED 299 412, ED 297 150, CE 053 752-774, and CE 053 783-797.