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Training in the UK: does national ownership matter?
Author(s) -
Parker Simon C.,
Coleman James
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of training and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.558
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1468-2419
pISSN - 1360-3736
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2419.00086
Subject(s) - training (meteorology) , quality (philosophy) , business , foreign ownership , set (abstract data type) , demographic economics , labour economics , marketing , economics , foreign direct investment , computer science , geography , macroeconomics , philosophy , epistemology , meteorology , programming language
We investigate whether UK‐owned and foreign‐owned firms operating in the UK differ with respect to the quality and quantity of training they perform. A simple theoretical model sets up the basis for the empirical analysis, which utilises the 1990 WIRS/EMSPS data set. It is found that, whereas the intensity of training does not seem to vary systematically with ownership, foreign‐owned establishments train significantly more of their employees and seem to provide higher quality training than their UK‐owned counterparts. It also appears that ‘poaching’ of trained labour, which is fairly similar by ownership, is not regarded as a major problem by employers.