TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Picchio, Matteo
AU  - Ours, Jan C. van
        TI  - Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers
        PY  - 2011/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5591
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5591
        AB  - This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This finding is robust to a number of robustness checks. It also holds for older workers, suggesting that firm-provided training may be an important instrument to retain older workers at work.
        KW  - older workers
KW  - training
KW  - employment
KW  - human capital
        ER  -