An Econometric Analysis of Industrial Training in Canada
构建了一个计量模型，利用加拿大人力资源调查数据，分析工业培训时长的影响因素，发现大企业培训更多、员工流动抑制特定培训但促进通用培训、政府补贴促进特定培训，而最低工资和工会对培训无显著负面影响。
An exploratory econometric model to explain the duration of industrial training programs and assess training policy is developed in this paper. Based on the theoretical framework of Becker and Hashimoto, models for general and specific training are formulated and estimated by Tobit regression using data from the Human Resources Survey of the Economic Council of Canada. The major results are that most training is conducted in large firms, that turnover discourages specific training but encourages general training, that government assistance encourages specific (but not general) training, and that neither minimum wages nor unions have significant negative impacts on training.