TY  - JOUR
AU  - Pischke,Jorn-Steffen
TI  - Continuous Training in Germany
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5829
PY  - 1996
Y2  - November 1996
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5829
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5829.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jorn-Steffen Pischke
CEP
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: 44-20-7955-6509
Fax: 44-20-7955-7595
E-Mail: s.pischke@lse.ac.uk
AB  - Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel, I describe the incidence, attributes, and outcomes of continuous training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989.  Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is concentrated among the more highly educated, and in the service sector and in public administration.  Much of this training seems to be general and provided to workers by their employers at no direct cost.  On the other hand, the training also does not seem to result in large short-run wage gains, especially for men.  These results are somewhat at odds with the conventional models about the financing of human capital formation.
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