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 …

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 …