Year: 2009
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: We analyse whether lower investments in human capital of part‐time workers are due to workers' characteristics or human resource practices of the firm. We focus on investments in both formal training and informal learning. Using the Dutch Life‐Long‐Learning Survey 2007, we find that part‐time workers have different determinants for formal training and informal learning from full‐time workers. The latter benefit from firms' human resource practices such as performance interviews, personal development plans, and feedback. Part‐time workers can only partly compensate the lack of firm support when they have a high learning motivation and imagination of their future development.
Source: Labour
Authors: Annemarie Nelen, Andries De Grip
Institution: Maastricht University
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2036065294