from the training firms' point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first … training firm retention rates. Additional training firm signals are high apprenticeship wages that signal a positive selection …

A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training … training firms in Germany are poaching victims. Firms are more likely to poach employees during an economic downturn. Training …

The present paper examines the wage effects of continuous training programs using individual-level data from the German … Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). In order to account for selectivity in training participation we estimate average treatment … effects (ATE and ATT) of general and firm-specific continuous training programs using several state-of-the-art propensity …

first to analyse these differences. Quality differences of apprenticeship quality between training firms that have been …

This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to … also pursue less ambitious goals with their training participation. An important reason for these differences during the … life cycle might be that firms do not offer the 'right' training forms and contents. Older employees get higher returns …

This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training …?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor demands indicate that training complements ICT but not other capital goods. SYS …?GMM estimates of production functions reveal that ICT capital is most productive if complemented by training measures in skill …

This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different … training forms in Germany. It hereby takes account of selectivity of training activities, unobserved heterogeneity of … a smaller positive impact, while training on the job, seminars and talks and job rotation do not affect productivity …

evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor's gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various … workplace characteristics. We implement an age-specific decomposition of the incidence and the duration of training into three … results show that the gender training gap changes with age. Females obtain less training during the early career, and their …