this interpretation of the ethics of responsibility and the ethics of compensation within a broad class of economic … ethics of compensation, and we report an impossibility result that clarifies the source of this conflict. …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human … capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of … employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the heterogeneity of treatment effects according to the timing of training during …

Community Household Panel to ask whether local density affects employer-provided training. We find that training is less … of employer-provided training by 0.07, more than 20 percent of the average incidence of training in the UK during the …

training. While there is little if any evidence in support of under-provision because of liquidity constraints to the demand … side of the market, there is evidence that employers provide and pay for general training, and that the provision of skills … encourages labor turnover. The combination of these two facts suggests that the labor market provides less training than optimal …

This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed … education and schools over vocational and higher education to training and lifelong learning. The available evidence suggests … deliver best results. Designed this way, education and training systems can advance efficiency and equity at the same time. …