Firms that provide on-the-job training do so when it is critical to their productivity-and when productivity is … critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and positive return from on-the-job training on wages … and productivity, as well as the presence of positive externalities from on-the-job training, while discussing the …

correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …

administrative microdata. It finds evidence of stronger productivity growth for firms supplying and operating in industries with more … spillover. Firms with intermediate productivity levels seem most likely to benefit from this effect. The results hold …