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Training, Task Flexibility and Low-Skilled Workers' Employability

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Sanders Jos
Grip Andries de (ROA rm)

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In this paper we analyse whether the training participation and task flexibility of low-skilled workers contribute to their firm-internal and external mobility. We find that both workers’ training participation and task flexibility merely contribute to workers’ firm-internal employability. However, the workers’ participation in training plays a much more explicit role in workers’ firm-internal careers than their task flexibility as it appears to be an important means to enhance their opportunities on the firm-internal labour market. Both workers’ participation in training and their task flexibility do not contribute to the external employability of the low-skilled workers. Task flexible low-skilled workers even less often expect to be externally employable than non-task flexible workers. The focus of low-skilled workers on their firm-internal employability can be explained by the fact that they usually have more opportunities to improve their position in the firm-internal labour market than on the external labour market.

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Paper provided by Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market in its series Research Memoranda with number 007.

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