is affected by the human capital of her colleagues. This is the case for goods such as health, education, legal services …This paper suggests that human capital externalities are important in determining whether goods and services should be …, police protection, and so on. The mode of provision (private or public) affects a supplier’s incentive to acquire human …

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

features of the GPT that produce a cyclical adjustment path. An initial recession occurs whenever a higher education level is …

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 … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …

explanations of firm-sponsored training. Using microdata from Germany, we show that the predictions of the specific human capital …This paper offers and tests a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for general training they receive. The … firm to provide training. We show that the model can lead to multiple equilibria. In one equilibrium quits are endogenously …

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To … endogeneity of input factors and training is applied. The productivity premium for a trained worker is estimated at 23%, while the … wage premium of training is estimated at 12%. Our results give support to recent theories that explain work related …