New evidence on the determinants of training
in Canadian business locations
by André Léonard, Human
Resources Development Canada,
Claude Montmarquette, Université de Montréal
and
Julie Turcotte, Finance Canada, May 2003
The evolving workplace series,
no. 5
The purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of worker
and workplace participation in training, using data from the 1999 Workplace and
Employee Survey (WES). To evaluate the level of commitment of the employer to
training, the authors also present an analysis of the proportion of employees
trained. In Canada, a number of studies have examined the factors which determine
participation in training. However, until recently, no Canadian survey made it
possible to simultaneously use a large number of both employee and employer characteristics.
The WES is unique in that it gathers detailed and linked data on business
locations and their workers for the whole, private non-agricultural sector of
the economy, thereby facilitating a more complete analysis than was previously
possible. Furthermore, the WES enables the joint analysis of the determinants
of both classroom and on the job training and an exploration of the differences
and the links between these two types of training.
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