Do unions increase participation in further education?

IF 1.3 2区 管理学 Q3 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Fredrik B. Kostøl
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The race between education and technology is a key issue for trade unions. Unions often include skill upgrading and training in collective bargains, which might be an important tool to facilitate lifelong learning. In this article, I investigate how trade unions influence workers’ participation in further education using Norwegian-matched employer–employee panel data on full-time workers and a fixed-effects framework. In contrast to most existing studies, which rely on more or less representative surveys, our data comprise the entire working population over a period of 16 years, allowing us to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity. An increase in the workplace union density is estimated to raise the individual propensity to participate in tertiary vocational education. I also find that workers in unionized establishments enjoy higher salaries during further education but at the expense of lower post-training wage premiums. In addition, unions are found to lower employee turnover. Together, these findings give empirical support to the theoretical prediction of Acemoglu and Pischke (1999), where firms may optimally choose to sponsor investments in workers’ skills in the absence of perfect competition in the labour market.

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工会是否会提高继续教育的参与率?
教育与技术之间的竞争是工会面临的一个关键问题。工会经常将技能提升和培训纳入集体谈判,这可能是促进终身学习的一个重要工具。在本文中,我利用挪威全职工人的雇主-雇员匹配面板数据和固定效应框架,研究了工会如何影响工人参与继续教育。与大多数依赖于或多或少具有代表性的调查的现有研究不同,我们的数据涵盖了16年来的全部工作人口,使我们能够控制未观察到的个体异质性。据估计,工作场所工会密度的增加会提高个人接受高等职业教育的倾向。我还发现,在有工会组织的单位工作的工人在继续接受教育期间会享受更高的工资,但代价是培训后的工资溢价较低。此外,工会还能降低员工流失率。这些发现共同为 Acemoglu 和 Pischke(1999 年)的理论预测提供了经验支持,即在劳动力市场缺乏完全竞争的情况下,企业可以最优化地选择赞助工人的技能投资。
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British Journal of Industrial Relations
British Journal of Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-
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期刊介绍: BJIR (British Journal of Industrial Relations) is an influential and authoritative journal which is essential reading for all academics and practitioners interested in work and employment relations. It is the highest ranked European journal in the Industrial Relations & Labour category of the Social Sciences Citation Index. BJIR aims to present the latest research on developments on employment and work from across the globe that appeal to an international readership. Contributions are drawn from all of the main social science disciplines, deal with a broad range of employment topics and express a range of viewpoints.
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