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Firm-provided training and temporary contracts

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Spanish Economic Review

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This paper analyses the relationship between workers’ type of contract and the probability of receiving firm-provided training. In particular, we raise the following question: do workers with temporary contracts face the same probability of receiving training as workers with permanent contracts, once we account for the fact that both types of workers have different probabilities of being employed in a firm providing training? The results from our empirical analysis using data from the Spanish labour market suggest that workers with temporary contracts not only are less likely to be employed in training firms but, once they are in those firms, they also have a lower probability of being chosen to participate in firm-provided training activities.

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  1. Departamento de Fundamentos de Economía e Historia Económica, Universidad de Alcalá, Plaza Victoria 2, 28802, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Cecilia Albert, Carlos García-Serrano & Virginia Hernanz

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Correspondence to Cecilia Albert.

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J23, M53

Authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Universidad de Alcalá under research project “La relación entre temporalidad y formación en la empresa: un análisis comparativo entre los países de la Unión Europea” (award no. UAH2002/022) and from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology under research project “Observatorio del mercado de trabajo” (SEC2001-0061). We have also benefited from our participation in the research project “Estudio sobre la situación actual de la contratación temporal e indefinida en España” financed by the Spanish Employment Office (INEM). We are grateful to participants in the XXVII Simposio de Análisis Económico (Salamanca), V Jornadas de Economía Laboral (Reus-Tarragona), and a seminar in the Istituto de Ricerca Sociale (Milano), and to one anonymous referee. The usual disclaimer applies.

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Albert, C., García-Serrano, C. & Hernanz, V. Firm-provided training and temporary contracts. Spanish Economic Review 7, 67–88 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10108-004-0087-1

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