abstract: 'Less-educated workers have the lowest participation rates in job-related

  further training across the industrialized world, but the extent of

  their disadvantage varies. Using data on 28 high- and middle-income

  countries, we assess different explanations for less-educated workers''

  training disadvantage relative to intermediate-educated workers, with a

  focus on the role of labor market allocation (i.e. job tasks, other job

  features and firm characteristics). Shapley decompositions reveal a

  broadly similar pattern for all countries: differences in labor market

  allocation between less- and intermediate-educated workers are more

  important for explaining the training gap than differences in individual

  learning disposition (i.e. cognitive skills and motivation to learn).

  Our analysis further suggests that the training gap is related to

  educational and labor market institutions and that labor market

  allocation processes play a key role in mediating any institutional

  `effects''. Strong conclusions regarding the role of institutions are

  hampered by the small country-level sample, however.'
affiliation: 'Hornberg, C (Corresponding Author), WZB Berlin Social Sci Ctr, Berlin,
  Germany.

  Hornberg, Carla; Heisig, Jan Paul; Solga, Heike, WZB Berlin Social Sci Ctr, Berlin,
  Germany.

  Heisig, Jan Paul; Solga, Heike, Free Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany.'
author: Hornberg, Carla and Heisig, Jan Paul and Solga, Heike
author-email: carla.hornberg@wzb.eu
author_list:
- family: Hornberg
  given: Carla
- family: Heisig
  given: Jan Paul
- family: Solga
  given: Heike
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/ser/mwad023
earlyaccessdate: APR 2023
eissn: 1475-147X
files: []
issn: 1475-1461
journal: SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW
keywords: 'inequality in adult training; skills; labor market allocation; Shapley

  decomposition; labor market institutions; education systems'
keywords-plus: 'JOB TASKS; OCCUPATIONAL-STATUS; SYSTEMS; PARTICIPATION; INSTITUTIONS;

  EMPLOYMENT; COUNTRIES; MODELS; SKILLS'
language: English
month: 2023 APR 29
number-of-cited-references: '60'
orcid-numbers: Solga, Heike/0000-0002-1589-4380
papis_id: 5e50949e5b959ddfb4f31b6f62c0ba24
ref: Hornberg2023explainingtraining
researcherid-numbers: 'Heisig, Jan Paul/AAY-4706-2021

  '
times-cited: '0'
title: 'Explaining the training disadvantage of less-educated workers: the role of
  labor market allocation in international comparison'
type: Article; Early Access
unique-id: WOS:000976162000001
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '1'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; Political Science; Sociology
year: '2023'