Support for further training : Brief report 17/1 to the Bavarian Federal Ministry for Labour, Society, the Family and Integration and the Regional Directorate of Bavaria of the Federal Employment Agency on the IAB Establishment Panel Bavaria 2016

Abstract

"The current report is based on the results of the IAB Establishment Panel Bavaria 2016. At 49 per cent, the share of establishments and offices engaged in providing further training was clearly higher in 2016 than in the year 2001 (39 per cent), has however been stagnating over the last three years. The share of establishments providing further training increases with the number of employees. The most important forms of further training are "external courses, training courses, seminars". The further training quota - that is, the share of employees included in further training courses in relation to all employees - lay in 2016 at 34 per cent, clearly higher than in the year 2001 (19 per cent), but has been stagnating over the last three years. The further training quota is below average, both in the productive trade and in the area of trade and repair. It increases with the number of employees in the establishments and is higher in establishments where there is commitment to a collective wage agreement than in those where this is not the case. There is a clear positive relationship between the economic success of establishments (in the previous year), their embeddedness in modern technical developments (digitalisation), and the level of the rate of further training. Establishments with investments in the previous year and those with vacant positions report above-average involvement in providing further training. Women do not have a lower rate with regard to in-company further training - rather, the opposite is true. However, where the differentiation according to level of qualifications is concerned, there is a large gap: employees carrying out simple tasks are less often involved in further training measures than those with high qualifications. The "gap" in the further training quotas of particular groups became ever larger for a considerable period of time, but has decreased somewhat over the last two years. Nonetheless, the percentual differences in values between the qualification groups in 2016 were almost as large as they were in 2007." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)

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Kistler, E., Wiegel, C., Böhme, S. & Eigenhüller, L. (2017): Betriebliche Weiterbildungsförderung. Kurzbericht 17/1 an das Bayerische Staatsministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, Familie und Integration und die Regionaldirektion Bayern der Bundesagentur für Arbeit zum IAB-Betriebspanel Bayern 2016. Stadtbergen, 15 p.