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 …

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

wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country … training, both firm-specific and general. While the finding for firm-specific training is consistent with both competitive and … non-competitive approaches, the result for general training is only consistent with the non-competitive approach. …

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2 …,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice … impact on participation in training modules. Nevertheless, the increase was partially offset by a deadweight loss in excess …

combination with continuous training. Based on German micro data, we find empirical evidence in support of training leading to … innovation within a multivariate regression framework. However, when instrumenting training by the existence of a union …

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 employees. Yet, the number of firms increases, thereby raising output and profit …