Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white … the observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training …, followed by a gradual movement to white-collar occupations. The estimated rates of return to local training, local experience …

terms of transaction costs, the US pay on average higher search/hiring costs in the labour market, and smaller training …

empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-99. We find that labour market training is the …

Do government provided training programmes benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the … training. Although theoretically training may have several outcomes, most evaluations have focused on only one outcome of … training: the expected wage. Training might have no direct effect on wage, however, but it affects employment probability in …

like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training …