training, which yields skills used primarily in the informal sector.  In this paper we use a 2006 urban based household survey … with detailed questions on the background, training and earnings of workers in both wage and self-employment to ask whether … apprenticeship pays off.  We show that apprenticeship is by far the most important institution providing training and is undertaken …

In this paper we ask how the returns to academic education compare with the return to two types of training drawing on … labour force data from Tanzania`s manufacturing sector. The first is vocational training or attending a technical college as … part of schooling, the second is on-the-job training in a firm. There has been much dispute in the literature as to whether …

The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons why firms pay for the general skills of … willingness of firms to pay for general training, and accounts for the pattern of training provision empirically observed. It is … assumptions, when training and specific human capital are complements, the firm would pay for the former in order to induce the …