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 …

training type (holding the level) and occupation. We document that in the Czech Republic and Poland the wage rate grew faster … in business occupations than in technical occupations in the 1990's, and that in response the technical training …/occupations contracted while the business training/occupations expanded. We do not find this pattern in Hungary. We construct a neoclassical …

We analyse Polish active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view …. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …

In this paper we summarise our previous results on the effectiveness of different kinds of labour market training …-the-job training and also some positive employment effects for employment programmes. No such effects appear for public sector … sponsored (off-the-job) training programmes. Generally, the scope of such analysis is very much hampered by the insufficient …

of several types of worker training and to estimate the effects of training on workers' interindustry, interfirm, and … shock of economic liberalization in Russia may raise the benefits of training, particularly retraining for new jobs, but … uncertainty concerning the revaluation of skills may raise the costs, with an overall ambiguous effect on the amount of training …

information on training programmes given in the Supplement to the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994. For the analysed … period 1990-1994, we do not find any significant effects of public training programmes on the duration of unemployment. …