not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education/training …

40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to … identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on training participation, and the effect of training participation on … wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …

which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity …

Monthly panel (1998-2003) data from regional labor offices in Latvia are used to analyze the matching process in a high … unemployment. Results suggest that the hiring process is driven by a stock-flow rather than by a traditional matching function: the … significant role. We find positive and significant effect of training programs on outflows from unemployment to employment, thus …

Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate …

first half of the paper, I present an equilibrium matching model where heterogeneous workers and firms learn about match … yields an assortative matching result that predicts a negative correlation between estimated person and firm effects, which … matching model implies a specific structure for the error covariance. I exploit this structure to test whether earnings …