transition from education to the labour market. Using a unique data set on the labour market situation of graduates in nine … European countries, we investigate the significance of five characteristics of the higher education programmes: (1) The … occupations.First, our results reveal in particular the importance of the competence orientation of the education programme …

resource practices of the firm. We focus on investments in both formal training and informal learning. Using the Dutch Life …-Long-Learning Survey 2007, we find that part-time workers have different determinants for formal training and informal learning than full …

In this paper we analyse whether the training participation and task flexibility of low-skilled workers contribute to … their firm-internal and external mobility. We find that both workers’ training participation and task flexibility merely … contribute to workers’ firm-internal employability. However, the workers’ participation in training plays a much more explicit …

In this paper we analyse whether the training participation and task flexibility of low-skilled workers contribute to … their firm-internal and external mobility. We find that both workers’ training participation and task flexibility merely … contribute to workers’ firm-internal employability. However, the workers’ participation in training plays a much more explicit …

data for lower secondary education. The results show substantial effects of student background on educational performance …

substitutability between initial education (i.e. recruitment policies) and continuing training. However, if we correct for the …. We distinguish between upgrading by recruitment policies and by training policies. Labour Force Survey data shows an … increase in skill levels and rather stable participation in continuing vocational education. The data also reveal diverging …