October 14, 1998 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Large employers provide more
training for employees
In 1995, formal training was more likely
to be provided by employers with 500 or more employees (98 percent) than by medium
employers with 100-499 employees (94 percent) or by small employers with 50 to 99
employees (91 percent).
Employees also were more likely to
have received formal training in medium-sized employers (73 percent) and large employers
(71 percent) than in smaller establishments (62 percent) during 1995.
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Small employers provided fewer hours of formal training than did
medium or large employers in 1995. From the employer survey, employers with 50-99
employees provided an average of about 6 hours of formal training, compared with about 12
hours for both employers with 100-499 employees and employers with 500 or more.
Employees in establishments with 500 or more employees spent 39
percent of their total training time in formal training, compared with 20 percent for
employees in establishments with fewer than 100 employees. These findings support
the argument for economies of scale in formal training.
These data are a product of the BLS Survey of Employer-Provided Training. Additional information is available
from "Results from the 1995
Survey of Employer-Provided Training", Monthly Labor Review, June
1998.
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