ECONOMICAL EFFECT OF ON-THE-JOB TRAINING: USING KOREAN FIRM PANEL DATA
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https://doi.org/10.20319/pijss.2016.s21.818840Keywords:
Human Capital, Firm on-the-Job Training, Economics of Education, Panel Analysis, The Effect of on the- Job trainingAbstract
The study aims to investigate the economic effect of firm on-the-job training using a panel data in Korea, improving analysis data, method, and study model of a precedent study. To accomplish the object of this study, the panel analysis was applied to analyze using a Korea Investors Service (KIS), Human Capital Corporate Panel (HCCP) and Workplace Panel Survey (WPS) data. The results of this study show that positive effect firm on-the-job training on firm’s productivity. Based on the results of this study, government should need to make a policy development to reinforcement investment on firm on-the-job training at the national level. And it was drawn in a conclusion to need not avoid but continuous investment on firm on-the-job training at the company level.
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