Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Nelen Annemarie 
Author-Name: Grip Andries de
Author-workplace-name: ROA rm
Title: Why do Part-Time Workers invest less in Human Capital than Full-Timers?
Abstract: We analyze whether lower investments in human capital of part-time workers are due to workers’ characteristics or human resource practices of the firm. We focus on investments in both formal training and informal learning. Using the Dutch Life-Long-Learning Survey 2007, we find that part-time workers have different determinants for formal training and informal learning than full-time workers. The latter benefit from firms’ human resource practices such as performance interviews, personal development plans and feedback. Part-time workers can only partly compensate the lack of firm support when they have a high learning motivation and imagination of their future development. 
Keywords: education, training and the labour market; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 004
File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:1705cb6c-8228-40b3-81b9-4b6be5a0f0fa/datastreams/ASSET1/content
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Handle: RePEc:unm:umaror:2008004