This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims …, participation in non-voucher training shows little relation to personality traits. From a human resources perspective, this finding … suggests that by employing a voucher scheme, the firm makes training participation more dependent on employee personality and …

This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British …, financial performance, labour productivity and product quality. While there is clear evidence that training is positively … relationship between training and performance is complex, depending on both the particular measures of training and of performance …

Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance and development of further training in … private sector firms. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual and job-based determinants of its incidence … the empirical evidence. Job status and firm size are the most relevant characteristics for training participation …

We analyse the influence of regional determinants on the decision of employers to provide within-firm further training … industry against the background of several determinants of further training at the establishment level. To account for the …

regional training supply and employees' training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local … training participation is significantly higher in regions with many firms in the training supply market. The predictive power …

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

business set-up and expansion or increased income. At a disaggregate level by outcome groups, providing a package of training … business training for existing entrepreneurs than other interventions to improve business performance. …

This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in … training, but did not do so because of a random event like course cancellation by the provider of training. We find no impact …

This paper analyzes the effects of training quality on the likelihood of treatment completion by estimating dose …-response functions via a generalized propensity score. Results show a statistically positive relationship between training quality and …