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German Employers’ Inputs to Employee Skills Development
Author(s) -
CROUCHER RICHARD,
BROOKES MICHAEL
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.2009.00555.x
Subject(s) - german , incentive , business , test (biology) , employee development , labour economics , public relations , economics , political science , microeconomics , archaeology , paleontology , biology , history
Using organizational level survey data, this article analyzes larger German private employers’ inputs to employee skills development, to test the theory that unions and employers’ associations raise employer incentives for training. Large German employers maintained their overall contribution between 1995 and 1999. Indicative data for 2004 suggest that this has continued, yet neither membership of employers’ associations nor high union densities influenced it.