CORRELATES OF TRAINING: AN ANALYSIS USING BOTH EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE CHARACTERISTICS. From: Industrial and Labor Relations Review | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2000 Cornell University, ILR Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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Although a number of surveys now measure employee training, serious gaps remain in our knowledge of such fundamental matters as how much training takes place, who provides it, and who gets it. The authors explore these questions using the 1995 Survey of Employer-Provided Training, which, because it collected data from employers as well as employees, enables a more complete analysis of the correlates of training than has been possible before. While there are some differences across the measures of training incidence and intensity, the authors find that ...

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