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Dissatisfaction with Working Time and Workers' Training Opportunities. Evidence from Matched Employer–Employee Data
Author(s) -
Magnani Elisabetta
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
economic papers: a journal of applied economics and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.245
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1759-3441
pISSN - 0812-0439
DOI - 10.1111/1759-3441.12134
Subject(s) - restructuring , appeal , training (meteorology) , test (biology) , work (physics) , demographic economics , labour economics , business , differential (mechanical device) , economics , political science , finance , geography , mechanical engineering , paleontology , engineering , aerospace engineering , meteorology , law , biology
Training opportunities are unevenly distributed across workers. I use two highly‐comparable matched employer–employee surveys collected in the most intense phase of economic restructuring in Australia and Canada to test the hypothesis that a worker's desire to work less hours may reduce his/her training opportunities. I find robust evidence of a negative correlation between the desire to work less intensively and training opportunities. Institutional differences in the retirement funding system, and the differential appeal of outside options in Australia and Canada may contribute to explain these results.