TY - JOUR

T1 - Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions

AU - Pfeifer, Christian

AU - Janssen, Simon

AU - Yang, Philip

AU - Backes-Gellner, Uschi

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions forproductivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main finding is that workers have larger probabilities to make suggestions and to be promoted after they have received formal training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but also seem to be affected in the long term.

AB - We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions forproductivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main finding is that workers have larger probabilities to make suggestions and to be promoted after they have received formal training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but also seem to be affected in the long term.

KW - Economics

KW - human capital

KW - insider econometrics

KW - productivity

KW - promotions

KW - training

U2 - 10.1007/BF03396858

DO - 10.1007/BF03396858

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 65

SP - 270

EP - 288

JO - Schmalenbach Business Review

JF - Schmalenbach Business Review

SN - 1439-2917

IS - 3

ER -