Economic change and continuous vocational training in the work history: a longitudinal multilevel analysis of the employees’ participation in further training and the effects on their occupational careers in Germany, 1970–2008

Abstract Human capital theory and the life-course perspective are used to investigate how economic modernisation, as well as developments in the labour market after the West German “economic miracle”, impacted employers’ supply of further education and training on the job, and employees’ increased p...

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Main Author: Rolf Becker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-02-01
Series:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40461-019-0079-x