This is the front matter from a book of interviews to be published by Blackwell. The book is coedited by W. A. Barnett … more startling and controversial statements contained in the interviews and puts the interviews into context relative to … the history of modern economic thought. The interviews reprinted in this book include: (1) Wassily Leontief interviewed by …

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 …

significant role. We find positive and significant effect of training programs on outflows from unemployment to employment, thus … providing strong evidence against recent cuts in training expenditures. …

personnel files and job-histories from interviews with the workers, it is shown that new recruits receive a higher starting wage …