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Productivity Gains From the Implementation of Employee Training Programs

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Ann P. Bartel
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This paper utilizes data on the personnel policies and economic characteristics of businesses in the manufacturing sector to study the relationship between employee training and labor productivity. The major finding is that businesses that were operating below their expected labor productivity levels in 1983 implemented new employee training programs after 1983 which resulted in significantly larger increases in labor productivity growth between 1983 and 1986. This higher rate of productivity growth was sufficient to bring these businesses up to the labor productivity levels of comparable businesses by 1986. The positive effects of training implementation on productivity growth were shown to be inconsistent with a "Hawthorne Effect" interpretation because the implementation of new personnel policies other than training did not have significant effects on productivity growth.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 3893.

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  1. Bishop, John H, 1990. "Job Performance, Turnover, and Wage Growth," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 8(3), pages 363-86, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Lisa M. Lynch, 1989. "Private Sector Training and its Impact on the Earnings of Young Workers," NBER Working Papers 2872, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Clair Brown & Michael Reich & David Stern, 1992. "Becoming a High-Performance Work Organization: The Role of Security, Employee Involvement, and Training," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series 1072, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley. [Downloadable!]
  2. Wolbers,M., 2001. "Learning and Working: Double Statuses in Youth Transitions within the European Union," Research Memoranda 006, Maastricht : ROA, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market. [Downloadable!]
  3. Mark Schonewille, 2004. "Qualitative Efficiency Assessment of Markets: An Institutional Approach to Training," HEW 0405006, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  4. Aurora Amélia Castro Teixeira & Pedro Cosme Vieira, 2004. "Is Portuguese regional growth schumpeterian? An empirical assessment of the relation between schooling, firm destruction and firm productivity," ERSA conference papers ersa04p134, European Regional Science Association. [Downloadable!]
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