The paper analyses the mix of training forms in employer-provided training in East and West German enterprises with a special emphasis on informal and work-integrated forms of learning. Recent studies have shown that East German enterprises are at least as active in employer-provided training as...

Der Beitrag behandelt die Frage, ob sich betriebliche Determinanten informeller Weiterbildung von denen formalisierter Weiterbildung unterscheiden. Grundlage ist eine Befragung von über 1.700 Betrieben. Empirisch zeigt sich auf der Grundlage von ordered-logit-Schätzungen, dass (1) viele der...

Over the last years, the employment rate of older workers has increased sharply in Germany. Against this background, the question arose as to whether firms have contributed actively to the growing share of older employees, either by offering special human resource management (HRM) measures, such...