This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed … performed at work are strong predictors of training participation while personality traits are not. Once working tasks and other … job related characteristics are controlled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …

compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …

Using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper investigates the determinants of training participation in Germany …, distinguishing between self-initiated and employer-initiated training. Self-initiated training is considered as being a decision … within households rather than purely individual. Therefore, in addition to standard training determinants, information on one …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job … characteristics, we fi nd a diff erence between males and females in the correlation of training with job satisfaction which is … xed eff ects. To gain insights into the reasons for this diff erence, we further investigate training characteristics by …

on training incidence as well as on the number of trained workers. According to theory, one would expect a negative … relationship between product market competition and firms’ incentives to invest in employees’ general skills (Gersbach and … training. This result is robust towards different samples, model specifications and estimation techniques. …

The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for firm …-specific training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This implies that training participation should … is supported empirically. Specifically, we find that employees are significantly less likely to participate in training …

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 …