Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Sanders,Jos
Author-Name: Grip,Andries,de
Author-workplace-name: ROA rm
Title: Training, Task Flexibility and Low-Skilled Workers' Employability
Abstract: In this paper we analyse whether the training participation and task flexibility of low-skilled workers contribute to their firm-internal and external mobility. We find that both workers’ training participation and task flexibility merely contribute to workers’ firm-internal employability. However, the workers’ participation in training plays a much more explicit role in workers’ firm-internal careers than their task flexibility as it appears to be an important means to enhance their opportunities on the firm-internal labour market. Both workers’ participation in training and their task flexibility do not contribute to the external employability of the low-skilled workers. Task flexible low-skilled workers even less often expect to be externally employable than non-task flexible workers. The focus of low-skilled workers on their firm-internal employability can be explained by the fact that they usually have more opportunities to improve their position in the firm-internal labour market than on the external labour market.
Keywords: education, training and the labour market; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2003
Number: 007
File-URL: http://arnop.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=707
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 192704
Handle: RePEc:unm:umaror:2003010