Did work-related training protect the employed from unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did work-related training protect the employed from unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Author(s): Jacek Liwiński, Maria KernerSubject(s): Labor relations, Vocational Education, Health and medicine and law, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz – Instytut Technologii Eksploatacji
Keywords: training; employment; probit model;
Summary/Abstract: The rapid pace of technological development makes work-related training an increasingly important source of competences for employees. It seems that new competences may have been crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they provided employees with the knowledge and skills needed to work in a hybrid or remote form. Therefore, from a theoretical point of view, one would expect that work-related training contributed to a decrease in the risk of job loss at that time. Using individual data from the Polish Labour Force Survey (LFS) for the years 2018–2020, we estimated a probit model of outflows from employment to see whether participation in work-related training reduced the probability of outflows from employment into unemployment. However, the results do not confirm the existence of such a relationship either before (2018–2019) or during (2020) the pandemic.
Journal: Edukacja Ustawiczna Dorosłych
- Issue Year: 121/2023
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 123-132
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English