Belloni Michele, Villosio Claudia
Economics Department University Ca' Foscari of Venice, CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto, and Netspar, San Giobbe 873, 30121 Venice, Italy.
LABORatorio R. Revelli-Collegio Carlo Alberto, Via Real Collegio 30, 10024 Moncalieri, TO Italy.
Eur J Ageing. 2014 Nov 15;12(1):7-16. doi: 10.1007/s10433-014-0327-7. eCollection 2015 Mar.
The financial deficits of many social security systems caused by ageing populations and stagnating economies are forcing workers to retire later from the labour market. An extended working life, combined with rapid technological progress in many sectors, is likely making older workers' skills obtained in school obsolete. In this context, lifelong investment in training is widely recognised among the international research and policy community as a key element to increase or at least limit the decline in productivity of older workers. This paper investigates the relationship between training undertaken by European older workers and their wages, relying on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. There is no evidence of training wage premium for older workers residing in many European countries including Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Very high premiums are instead found for Austria, Germany, Greece and Italy. It is, however, likely that these high premiums are overestimated due to training endogeneity and sample selection bias.
人口老龄化和经济停滞导致许多社会保障系统出现财政赤字，这迫使工人推迟从劳动力市场退休。延长的工作寿命，再加上许多部门的快速技术进步，可能使老年工人在学校学到的技能过时。在这种背景下，终身培训投资在国际研究和政策界被广泛认为是提高或至少限制老年工人生产率下降的关键因素。本文依靠欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查，研究了欧洲老年工人接受的培训与其工资之间的关系。在包括丹麦、瑞典、比利时、荷兰和瑞士在内的许多欧洲国家，没有证据表明老年工人存在培训工资溢价。相反，在奥地利、德国、希腊和意大利发现了非常高的溢价。然而，由于培训的内生性和样本选择偏差，这些高溢价很可能被高估了。
