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Crossing the Tracks? More on Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in Great Britain

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Jones, Melanie K. (WELMERC, University of Wales Swansea)
Latreille, Paul L. () (WELMERC, University of Wales Swansea)
Sloane, Peter J. (WELMERC, University of Wales Swansea and IZA Bonn)

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A small number of recent empirical studies for several countries has reported the intriguing finding that the ‘advantage’ previously enjoyed by men in respect of training incidence and reported in earlier work in the literature has been reversed. The present paper explores the sources of the gender differential in training incidence using Labour Force Survey data, updating previous U.K. studies and providing further insights into the above phenomenon. The results suggest that the greater part of the ‘gap’ typically relates to differences in characteristics, among which the most important relate to occupation, industry and sector (public/private).

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1411.

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Keywords: gender; training; decomposition analysis;

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J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination

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  1. Shields, Michael A & Price, Stephen Wheatley, 1999. "Ethnic Differences in the Incidence and Determinants of Employer-Funded Training in Britain," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 46(5), pages 523-51, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Oaxaca, Ronald L. & Ransom, Michael R., 1994. "On discrimination and the decomposition of wage differentials," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 61(1), pages 5-21, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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