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- Title
Graduates on the labor market: Formal and informal post-school training investments.
- Authors
Salas-Velasco, Manuel
- Abstract
The purpose of this article is to obtain an understanding of which factors determine whether an university graduate receives formal on-the-job training or not and the amount of informal training received. Using a cross-sectional survey of Spanish graduates, this paper confirms that the informal training graduates receive in their jobs is more intense among doctors and lawyers – professions that require a more extensive period of learning before reaching the required level of skills. Likewise, those graduates that hold jobs requiring greater know-how than they can actually provide (infra-educated) also receive more informal training. In the case of formal training, the likelihood of taking part in in-house training programs is greater among civil servants and the employees of large private firms. However, the belief that workers with higher ability (a positive signal of a worker’s trainability) should have higher chances of receiving employer-provided formal training is not confirmed in this study.
- Subjects
SPAIN; EMPLOYEE training; OCCUPATIONAL training; LEARNING ability; TRAINING; EMPLOYMENT of college graduates
- Publication
Higher Education (00181560), 2007, Vol 54, Issue 2, p227
- ISSN
0018-1560
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10734-005-3092-x