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"Virtuous" and "vicious" circles? Adults' participation in different types of training in the UK and its association with wages
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Abstract The relationship between education, skills and labour market outcomes is becoming an increasingly pressing issue in many countries. In the UK, recent changes in education and skills funding structures and the ongoing consequences of the 2008 recession may have affected participation in training. "Vi... view more
The relationship between education, skills and labour market outcomes is becoming an increasingly pressing issue in many countries. In the UK, recent changes in education and skills funding structures and the ongoing consequences of the 2008 recession may have affected participation in training. "Virtuous" and "vicious" circles of learning may exist, whereby access to training is associated with social advantage, and training begets more training. We explore workers' participation in different types of training and how this is associated with wages using the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Our exploratory findings suggest that those working in lower-level occupations may not only be less likely to undertake training in general, but also less likely to have done types of training associated with wage increases (e.g., to meet occupational standards), and more likely to have done training associated with no or negative changes in wages (e.g., health and safety) compared to those working in higher-level occupations. We suggest that further research is needed to unpack the "black box" of training and its impacts upon different groups of people. We discuss the implications of our findings to help break the "vicious" circles.... view less
Keywords
education; wage; qualification; training; employee; learning; Great Britain; social class; learning aptitude
Classification
Vocational Training, Adult Education
Occupational Research, Occupational Sociology
Free Keywords
adult skills; types of training
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 177-201
Journal
Social Inclusion, 7 (2019) 3
Issue topic
Types of education, achievement and labour market integration over the life course
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed