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 …

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 …

A gap in the displaced worker-training literature is that the post-retraining period has not been studied over the long … 25 year period following their training. With our small sample, but in-depth examination, we will begin to remedy this … gap in the literature. To understand better the training programs available for displaced steelworkers, we also …

of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …