The Failure of Training in Britain: Analysis and Prescription

Finegold, David; Soskice, David

doi:10.1093/oxrep/4.3.21

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“…The importance of skills has been emphasised by, for example, Finegold and Soskice (1988), Bartel and Lichtenberg, 1987;Caroli and Van Reenen, 2001;and Bresnahan et. al., 2002;etc. (vi) A series of industry dummy variables to reflect environmental factors such as different industry conditions, markets, and types of innovations and payoffs to firms in different industries (SIC j ).…”

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e-Business usage across and within firms in the UK: profitability, externalities and policy

Battisti¹,

Canepa²,

Stoneman³

2009

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Using data from the third UK Community Innovation Survey we model the usage of e-business across and within firms in the UK in the year 2000 as a single observation upon an integrated process of inter-and intra-firm diffusion. The intra-firm dimension is a significant extension to standard analysis. The model estimates indicate that the pattern of ebusiness usage reflects the heterogeneity of firms in terms of size, other innovative activity and labour force skills (generating differences in the payoffs to use) as well as market and non-market intermediated externalities. The policy implications of the findings are discussed. JEL Classification: O3

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Section: An Integrated Diffusion Modelmentioning

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e-Business usage across and within firms in the UK: profitability, externalities and policy

Battisti¹,

Canepa²,

Stoneman³

2009

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“…The UK-Germany comparison is of particular interest in this respect because of the marked institutional contrasts between the two countries (Dore et al, 1999) epitomised by the high skill equilibrium (HSE) in Germany (e.g. Finegold and Soskice, 1988) and the two countries' very different financial and industrial relations systems (Culpepper, 1999). Other, perhaps derivative, differences also exist between the UK and Germany in terms of innovation propensities, national innovation systems (e.g.…”

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The organisation of innovation: collaboration, cooperation and multifunctional groups in UK and German manufacturing

Love¹,

Roper²

2004

Cambridge Journal of Economics

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Abstract:Marked differences exist between the institutional and social context for innovation in the UK and Germany. The question addressed here is how these different contexts impact on the objectives and organisation of innovation in UK and German manufacturing. In particular, we examine the extent to which UK and German plants engage in inter-plant collaboration and co-operation and multifunctional working as part of their innovative activity, and explore the reasons for differences in these patterns of involvement. The investigation is based on a large-scale, comparative survey of manufacturing plants in the two countries In Germany, institutional and social norms are found to encourage collaborative interplant innovation but aspects of the German skills training and industrial relations systems make the adoption of more flexible internal systems more difficult. In the UK on the other hand, the more adversarial nature of inter-firm relations makes it more difficult to establish external collaborations based on mutual trust, but less restrictive labour market structures make it easier for UK plants to adopt multifunctional working. This is linked to differences in attitudes to the property rights and transaction cost problems inherent in innovation.

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“…While national economies and firms themselves benefit from higher skill levels, many firms are unwilling to invest in employee training, since high skilled employees might be poached by other firms. The threat of skilled labour being poached by other firms or leaving voluntarily in search for higher wages in competitive labour markets leads to lower firm investments in skills and therefore to a lower skill-level in the economy as a whole (Soskice and Finegold 1988).…”

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“…Whereas firm-based training appears to have a positive effect on general skill levels by making training a general responsibility of firms (Iversen 2005, Soskice andFinegold 1988), the downside of firm-based training regimes is that the training institutions must continuously maintain a balance between the firms' and employees' needs for returns on their respective investment in specific training.…”

Section: The Problem Of Training and Training Regimesmentioning

confidence: 99%