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Gender Differences in Formal On‐the‐Job Training: Incidence, Duration, and Intensity
Author(s) -
O'Halloran Patrick Lee
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2008.00427.x
Subject(s) - duration (music) , training (meteorology) , incidence (geometry) , gender gap , job training , demographic economics , psychology , economics , mathematics , geography , pedagogy , art , geometry , literature , meteorology , vocational education
This paper explores whether there is a gender gap in the incidence, duration, intensity, and number of events of on‐the‐job training. Overall, women appear to receive a higher incidence of on‐the‐job training whereas men receive on‐the‐job training of longer duration. Including measures intended to capture the extent of labor force attachment and expected tenure fails to reduce the gender gap in the duration of on‐the‐job training. Therefore, the gender gap in the duration of on‐the‐job training must be attributed to differences in unobserved worker characteristics that differ by gender or discrimination.