Workplace Education for Low-Wage Workers

This study reports on employers' practices and decision-making procedures with regards to workplace education and training for low-wage workers. Focusing on these employees is important, say the authors, because they are the ones most likely to experience declining wages or job loss as a result of rapid and fundamental changes in the economy. In addition, there is reason to believe that workplace education programs may be more successful in raising earnings among low-wage workers than are government-provided programs. For whatever reason, these are the workers who are the least likely to receive training, and at the same time, they are the ones who could benefit from it the most.