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 …

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 …

The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time …-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm …-post monopsonistic power in wage determination. Local union-firm wage bargaining ensures that the post-training wage is set sufficiently …

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 … high and as a result employers have limited monopsony power and are willing to supply only little training, while in …

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 …