Returns to on-the-job training: do skill usage, tasks and workstation matter? Evidence from British workers

Working paper

Using data drawn from the 1997 and 2001 British Skills Surveys, which are large-scale cross-sectional representative surveys of working individuals, this paper aims both to make a contribution to understanding the returns to on-the-job training and to disaggregate the contributions of formal and informal learning to workers with different levels of skills (literacy, numeracy, and computing skills), engaging in different types of tasks under different work arrangements. We use an explicit cont...

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Authors: Nordman, C; Hayward, G

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) Publisher's website
• Series: SKOPE Research Paper
• Place of publication: http://www.skope.ox.ac.uk/publications
• Publication date: 2006-01-01
• ISSN: 1466-1535
• Paper number: 63, January 2006
• Language: English
• Keywords: selectivity; JEL:J24; formal and informal learning; returns to training; United Kingdom; basic and computing skills; JEL:J31
• Subjects: Vocational and professional learning; Education