The Impact of Product Market Competition on Training Provision: Evidence from Canada

Lai, Tat-kei; Ng, Travis

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1911858

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“…Riddell and Song () note, that due to the design of the WES, the two year structure of the panel may be serially correlated. Therefore, we use Huber/White robust standard errors clustered at the workplace level allowing us to provide more accurate standard errors in the WES (Riddell and Song, ; Lai and Ng, ). We control for industry, occupation, and year in all regressions.…”

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What Determines Vacation Leave? The Role of Gender

Fakih

2017

Bulletin of Econ Res

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Vacation leave is introduced in workplaces to improve the working environment. Surprisingly, it has been observed that a large number of workers do not use all of their entitled vacation days. This paper provides a novel set of facts about the gender differences in taking vacation time using the Canadian Workplace Employee Survey, which is a linked longitudinal employer-employee dataset. The results show considerable differences between men and women in the estimated effects of some demographic characteristics after controlling for job and workplace characteristics. However, they reveal significant implications of work arrangements (e.g., part-time work, flexible work schedules, and home-based work), job promotion, supervisory tasks, and union membership for vacation use, for both men and women. This paper provides further insights on the use of fringe benefits that may be useful to policymakers and businesses.

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Section: Empirical Results and Discussionmentioning

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What Determines Vacation Leave? The Role of Gender

Fakih

2017

Bulletin of Econ Res

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“…Two studies show no association between product market competition and training, one using Dutch worker-manufacturing firm data on firm sponsored training (Picchio and van Ours 2011), the other using German manufacturing data (Görlitz and Stiebale 2011). By contrast, using Canadian data, Xu and Lin (2011) and Lai and Ng (2014) find a positive link between competition and training. Similarly, Bassanini et al (2007) and Bassanini and Brunello (2011) demonstrate a positive relationship between product market deregulation and training in Europe.…”

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“…In Bassanini and Brunello's model the latter effect dominates the first one. Lai and Ng (2014) present a signaling model that implies an ambiguous influence of competition on training. In the model, both firms and workers can invest in the human capital of the latter.…”

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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany

Heywood

Jirjahn

Pfister

2019

Industrial and Corporate Change

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Using German establishment data, this article examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten liquidation to a firm. We take this as evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship. We also make clear that while this relationship is very evident for the service sector, it is far less evident for manufacturing where we largely confirm earlier results of no relationship.

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“…It may also influence union bargaining power and so negotiations over training (Boheim and Booth, ). Indeed, the three theoretical contributions to date differ in their conclusions, predicting a positive, negative, and ambiguous relationship between training and product market competition (Bassanini and Brunello, ; Gersbach and Schmutzler, ; Lai and Ng, ). The existing empirical evidence remains similarly mixed, with some finding no effect of product competition on firm sponsored training (Görlitz and Stiebale, ; Picchio and Van Ours, ) and others finding a positive effect of competition (Lai and Ng, ) and of product market deregulation (Bassanini et al., ; Bassanini and Brunello, ) on training.…”

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