Volume 8, Number 4 (Fall) 1973
Gunderson, Morley. 1973. "Determinants of Individual Success in On-the-Job Training." Journal of Human Resources 8(4):472-484.
This study of on-the-job training utilizes data on individual trainees. Dependent variables are: whether the trainee graduates or drops out, whether he stays with the sponsoring company or leaves after training, his productivity improvement, and his wage gains. With the exception of the trainee's personal characteristics, the explanatory variables have a similar influence on each of the dependent variables. In explaining variation in each of the success measures, the personal characteristics of the trainee are generally not important; his labor market characteristics are important only for wage changes; and the company and training program characteristics are extremely important.
The author is an Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Centre for Industrial Relations, Faculty of Management Studies, and Scarborough College. This study is based in part on my Ph.D. dissertation, "Determinants of Individual Success in On-the-Job Training: An Econometric Analysis" (University of Wisconsin, 1971). I would like to thank my supervisor, W. Lee Hansen, as well as Arthur Goldberger and Gerald Somers for their generous assistance. I am also grateful for the comments of John Kinley, Gerald Starr, and Frank Whittingham of the Ontario Department of Labor.
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