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Population Aging and Trends in the Provision of Continued Education

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  • Regina T. Riphahn
  • Parvati Trübswetter

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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 haveb lead 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. This is confirmed by multivariate regressions on pooled cross-sectional data: the increase in training probabilities is highest among older workers.

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  • Regina T. Riphahn & Parvati Trübswetter, 2007. "Population Aging and Trends in the Provision of Continued Education," RatSWD Research Notes 11, German Data Forum (RatSWD).
    • Handle: RePEc:rsw:rswrns:rswrns11
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    Cited by:

    1. Elke Wolf, 2014. "The German Part-Time Wage Gap: Bad News for Men," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 663, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
    2. Kaufmann, Katrin, 2015. "Non-Formal Education in International Comparison: Patterns of Participation and Investment in Selected European Countries," International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET), European Research Network in Vocational Education and Training (VETNET), European Educational Research Association, vol. 2(4), pages 239-267.

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    Keywords

    specific human capital investment; training; population aging; demographic change;
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    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 - - Personnel Economics - - - Training

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