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Europe. Consistent with the view that firms use recessions as times to update skills, we find that training participation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368252
This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608802
This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262515
We study the impact of barriers to entry on workplace training. Our theoretical model indicates that there are two contrasting effects of deregulation on training. With a given number of firms, deregulation reduces the size of rents per unit of output that firms can reap by training their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266096
This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources - the CVTS, OECD … product market competition. We ask whether there is a case for under-provision of training in Europe and examine alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272749
Europe. Consistent with the view that firms use recessions as times to update skills, we find that training participation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553744
Using a representative sample of European firms, this paper studies whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decisions to invest in employee training. It combines survey data on investment activities with administrative data on financial statements to develop an index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203543
Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on investment activities with administrative data on financial statements to develop an index of financing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207748
In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, I find evidence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315278
In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, I find evidence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408779