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Population Aging and Continued Education

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Regina T. Riphahn () (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and IZA Bonn)
Parvati Trübswetter () (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

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Abstract

This study investigates whether the incidence of continued vocational education has changed as the German workforce commenced an aging process which is expected to intensify. As the lifespan in productive employment, lengthens human capital investments for older workers become increasingly worthwhile. Using the data of a German population survey we describe recent trends in the development of human capital investments and apply decomposition procedures to the probability of continued education. Holding everything else constant the shift in the population age distribution by itself would have led to a decline in training participation over the considered period, 1996-2004. However, the decomposition analyses yield that behavioral changes caused an increase in training particularly among older workers.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2415.

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Date of creation: Nov 2006
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Keywords: specific human capital investment; training; population aging; demographic change;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
M53 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Personnel Economics - - - Training

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  1. Jörn-Steffen Pischke, 2001. "Continuous training in Germany," Journal of Population Economics, Springer, vol. 14(3), pages 523-548. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Thomas Zwick, 2005. "Continuing Vocational Training Forms and Establishment Productivity in Germany," German Economic Review, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 6(2), pages 155-184, 05. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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