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Skill Development and Training in the Workplace Empirical Evidences from Thai Manufacturers

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Title Skill Development and Training in the Workplace Empirical Evidences from Thai Manufacturers
 
Creator Pholphirul, Piriya
 
Description Skill training in the workplace is a major concern among manufacturers in most developingcountries. Using Thai manufacture firm-level data, this study finds a positive relationshipbetween firm size and skill training. Skill training is found to be more prominent among firmsthat are more capital/technology intensive. Firms employing labor as a major input, on theother hand, provide less training opportunities for their workers. Firms employing lowereducated workers or lower skilled workers are likely to provide less skill training while firmsemploying a higher percentage of technical staff show more interest on providing trainingcourses. This suggests that training opportunities are rather biased toward higher skilled,better educated, rather than unskilled workers with low education that tend to amplify skillgaps among employees. Vacancies and general dissatisfaction with low-level workers maydiscourage firms from offering their own training, in favour of relying more on outsidetraining.
 
Publisher Development Economic Review (พัฒนาการเศรษฐกิจปริทรรศน์)
 
Date 2015-01-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://tci-thaijo.org/index.php/NER/article/view/31771
 
Source Development Economic Review (พัฒนาการเศรษฐกิจปริทรรศน์); Vol 9 No 1 (2558): NIDA Economic Review Journal; 127
1906-2540
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://tci-thaijo.org/index.php/NER/article/view/31771/27275
 
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