Collaborative Job Training in Rural Areas

Autor/inn/en	Green, Gary Paul; Galetto, Valeria; Haines, Anna
Titel	Collaborative Job Training in Rural Areas
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Rural Education, 18 (2003) 2, S.78-85 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-0670
Schlagwörter	Telephone Surveys; Job Training; Rural Areas; Field Experience Programs; Industrial Education; Industrial Psychology; Organizational Development; Interviews; Industrial Training; Agency Cooperation; Employer Attitudes; Rural Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Praxisnahes Lernen; Betriebspsychologie; Industriepsychologie; Organisationsentwicklung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Betriebliche Berufsausbildung; Gewerblich-industrielle Ausbildung; Industriebetriebslehre; Arbeitgeberinteresse; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung
Abstract	We examine collaborative efforts by employers to provide job training in rural areas and assess how this collaboration affects the willingness of employers to train workers. Data are drawn from a telephone survey conducted in 2001 of a stratified random sample of 1,590 nonmetropolitan firms in the U.S. The literature on job training suggests that the primary reason why individual employers provide little general training is the "free labor contract." Workers are free to move from one firm to another, thus jeopardizing employers' ability to realize the returns from those investments. Employers are most likely to identify common skill requirements or develop training programs with other firms in their same industry, and are least likely to collaborate with firms in their marketing/supply chain. Collaboration among firms is positively correlated with the percentage of the workforce that is formally trained and per capita expenditures for formal training. Finally, small businesses and manufacturing firms are much less likely to participate in these collaborative efforts. (Contains 3 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10