Further Training & Social Inequality

My current research analyses how further training and lifelong learning shape labour markets and contribute to patterns of inequality.

Current questions include:

• How do gendered differences in the returns to training affect the gender pay gap?

• Do migrant and native workers, men and women, have equal access to firms that provide training, and how do intersectional differences emerge within these organisations?

• To what extent does further training stabilise the careers of both academic and vocational workers?

• Are employees in shortage occupations more likely to participate in training?

• Do individuals who misjudge their own cognitive abilities – for example by overestimating them – participate less frequently in further training?

• How is the use of digital technologies at work related to participation in workplace learning?