Explaining the training disadvantage of less-educated workers: the role of labor market allocation in international comparison

IF 3.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-04-29 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwad023

Carla Hornberg, J. Heisig, Heike Solga

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Abstract

Less-educated workers have the lowest participation rates in job-related further training across the industrialized world, but the extent of their disadvantage varies. Using data on 28 high- and middle-income countries, we assess different explanations for less-educated workers’ training disadvantage relative to intermediate-educated workers, with a focus on the role of labor market allocation (i.e. job tasks, other job features and firm characteristics). Shapley decompositions reveal a broadly similar pattern for all countries: differences in labor market allocation between less- and intermediate-educated workers are more important for explaining the training gap than differences in individual learning disposition (i.e. cognitive skills and motivation to learn). Our analysis further suggests that the training gap is related to educational and labor market institutions and that labor market allocation processes play a key role in mediating any institutional ‘effects’. Strong conclusions regarding the role of institutions are hampered by the small country-level sample, however.

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解释低学历工人的培训劣势：劳动力市场配置在国际比较中的作用

在整个工业化国家，受教育程度较低的工人参加与工作相关的进一步培训的比率最低，但他们的劣势程度各不相同。利用28个高收入和中等收入国家的数据，我们评估了教育程度较低的工人相对于受过中等教育的工人在培训方面处于劣势的不同解释，重点是劳动力市场分配的作用（即工作任务、其他工作特征和公司特征）。Shapley分解揭示了所有国家大致相似的模式：在解释培训差距方面，受教育程度较低和中等的工人之间劳动力市场分配的差异比个人学习倾向（即认知技能和学习动机）的差异更重要。我们的分析进一步表明，培训差距与教育和劳动力市场制度有关，劳动力市场分配过程在调节任何制度“效应”方面发挥着关键作用。然而，关于机构作用的有力结论受到小国一级样本的阻碍。

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