social environments. Skill development is a dynamic process, in which the early years lay the foundation for successful …-term evaluations of adolescent interventions, but workplace-based programs that teach character skills are promising. The common … feature of successful interventions across all stages of the life cycle through adulthood is that they promote attachment and …

social environments. Skill development is a dynamic process, in which the early years lay the foundation for successful …-term evaluations of adolescent interventions, but workplace-based programs that teach character skills are promising. The common … feature of successful interventions across all stages of the life cycle through adulthood is that they promote attachment 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 training for existing entrepreneurs than other interventions to improve business performance. … across different interventions depending on outcomes, types of beneficiaries, and country context. Overall, entrepreneurship … business set-up and expansion or increased income. At a disaggregate level by outcome groups, providing a package of training …

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 …

Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white … observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training, followed … by a gradual movement to white-collar occupations. The estimated rates of return to local training, local experience and …

enterprises to focus more on job-specific training than on formal education of the labour force. Using cross-country data from the … textiles and garments industry, we demonstrate that training indeed has greater impact on firm efficiency in developing …