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Title: Technological Change and On-the-Job Training of Young Workers
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Bartel, Ann P. Sicherman, Nachum |
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Technological Change and On-the-Job Training of Young Workers Presented: New York, NY, Columbia, University, NBER Summer Institute in Labor Studies, July 26-30, 1993 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Keyword(s): High School Completion/Graduates; Human Capital; Technology/Technological Changes; Training, On-the-Job We use the NLSY to analyze the relationship between technological change and on-the-job training. The theoretical predictions are ambiguous: While higher rates of obsolescence are likely to decrease investment, on-the-job training will increase if technological change increases the productivity of human capital, reduces the cost of training, or increases the value of time in training relative to work. Our major empirical findings are: (1) Technological change induces firms to provide short (i.e. duration of less than a month) training to their employees, and we, therefore, do not observe a significant effect of technological change on hours of training. (2) Workers who receive training because of technological change are either high school graduates or those with eight or fewer years of schooling. (3) Workers who did not receive training in the previous year are more likely to be trained as a result of higher rates of technological change. |
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Bartel, Ann P. and Nachum Sicherman. "Technological Change and On-the-Job Training of Young Workers." Presented: New York, NY, Columbia, University, NBER Summer Institute in Labor Studies, July 26-30, 1993. |