Are unionized establishments more or less likely to provide formal training to their employees?
During 1993, unionized establishments were more likely to offer certain types of formal training than were nonunionized establishments. The presence of a union had a substantial effect on apprenticeship training: while the probability that the representative small, medium-sized, and large establishment offered apprenticeship training was 14 percent, 40 percent and 41 percent respectively, the otherwise identical unionized establishments had probabilities of 33 percent, 58 percent, and 54 percent. Unioniza tion, however, did not have a statistically significant impact on the provision of formal job skills training, especially in medium-sized and large establishments.
