“…For example, while 91% of employers in the education sector consider education and training of employees a priority, their peers in the industrial and agricultural sector, and the construction sector, report much lower proportions (50% and 55% respectively) (Echtelt, Schellingerhout and de Voogd-Hamelink, 2015). The evidence also shows firms are more likely to invest in skills development of employees when there are higher demands in terms of the skills of employees and work pressure (OECD, 2013;Pleijers and Hartgers, 2016;Panteia, 2016) Larger firms in the Netherlands invest more in the skills development of their employees. For example, according to the 2012 OECD Survey of Adult Skills, employees of large firms are considerably more likely to participate in on-the-job training than those in smaller firms (Figure 28).…”