TRAINING OF PERSONNEL: DETERMINANTS AND CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES

The study is aimed at identifying cross-country differences in personnel training. According to the human capital theory, probability of personnel training is positively related to expected return on training. According to available data, most employees in different countries are trained with the employer's financial support. In this context, young workers and workers in high-tech industries as well as workers with a higher level of education in positions of managers and specialists should be trained more often. The study tested hypotheses about the impact of characteristics of country, company and employees' individual characteristics on the probability of training. The main source of information is 8th round of studies of the European Social Survey (2016) in 18 countries. Research methods are descriptive and regression analysis. The probability of on-the-job training has a significant cross. The results show that workers are more likely to be educated in countries with better conditions for doing business. Training of employees is positively influenced by gender, age, organization size, its membership in public sector, employment in education, health care and some other areas of activity. The work reveals differences in training between countries of Northern and Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia.