Industry and employers
Factors affecting the provision of entry-level training by enterprises
- Item:
- 556
- Title:
- Factors affecting the provision of entry-level training by enterprises
- Authors:
- Katrina Ball, Brett Freeland
- Publication date:
- 3 May 2001
- Type:
- Research report
- Themes:
- Industry and employers > Small business > General
- Industry and employers > Training within the enterprise > General
- ISBN:
- 0 87397 696 7
This publication seeks to identify the key determinants of apprentice and trainee employment in Australian small and medium-sized enterprises. The investigation is based on data collected in the ABS Business Longitudinal Survey over the period 1994-95 to 1997-98. The study concludes that there is no evidence of a single business characteristic acting as a trigger for small and medium-size enterprises to provide apprentice and trainee training although there are a number of characteristics which affect an enterprise's propensity to undertake apprentice and trainee training, including the number of employees and the rate of expansion of the enterprise.
