This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …

reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …

permit an older full-time white-collar worker to take phased retirement. Phased retirement means that an older worker remains … in phased retirement, actual occurrences are evidently rare. A possible explanation is that employers limit opportunities … for phased retirement. The survey indicates that employers are often willing to permit phased retirement, but primarily as …

This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not …’s opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these data to first establish that employers are selective when offering … opportunities for phased retirement. It then examines what worker and job characteristics are particularly important in the …

-sponsored training records dating back more than 30 years. Human capital theory predicts that the amount of training and the length of … effects of training in prolonging working life are found for certain types of training and certain groups of workers. However …, out-of-sample simulations indicate that on average one year of training only adds up to one month to the career length …

workers who participated in firm-specific training in their early careers retire earlier than workers with a general training … background. This indicates that shared investments in firm-specific training are embedded in implicit contracts that induce early … retirement. The results remain robust when controlling for technological change and work commitment. …

training policies should therefore be reformulated. Skill formation is impaired when the returns to skill formation are low due … is both distortionary and inequitable. Early retirement and pension schemes should be made actuarially fairer as they …