IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ucp/jhucap/doi10.1086-739416.html

Advanced Digital Technologies and Investment in Employee Training

Author

Listed:
  • Giorgio Brunello
  • Désirée Rückert
  • Christoph T. Weiss
  • Patricia Wruuck

Abstract

By use of firm-level data that cover 25 European Union countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States as well as a difference-in-differences approach, we show that employers adopting advanced digital technologies (ADTs) reduce their investment in training per employee. Compared with the investment in training by non-adopting firms, this reduction is negligible on impact but increases to −11.3% and −13.8% of the pretreatment mean 2 and 3 years after adoption. We argue that a reason for the decline is that ADTs and employee training are substitutes in production. Our findings point to challenges in realizing high levels of firm-sponsored training for employees in increasingly digital economies.

Suggested Citation

  • Giorgio Brunello & Désirée Rückert & Christoph T. Weiss & Patricia Wruuck, 2026. "Advanced Digital Technologies and Investment in Employee Training," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 20(2), pages 287-312.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jhucap:doi:10.1086/739416
    DOI: 10.1086/739416
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/739416
    Download Restriction: Access to the online full text or PDF requires a subscription.
    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/739416
    Download Restriction: Access to the online full text or PDF requires a subscription.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1086/739416?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ucp:jhucap:doi:10.1086/739416. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Journals Division (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JHC .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.