fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …

differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed because of search frictions and workers' productivity differentials. The … productivity differentials, frictional wage dispersion and workers' sorting dynamics. I calibrate the model using a sample of young …' productivity differentials. Differences in firms' productivities are also an important source of wage inequality for both skill …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills … of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection …

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human … capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of … employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the heterogeneity of treatment effects according to the timing of training during …

per squared kilometer – positively affects local average productivity. In this paper we use British data from the European … Community Household Panel to ask whether local density affects employer-provided training. We find that training is less … of employer-provided training by 0.07, more than 20 percent of the average incidence of training in the UK during the …

side of the market, there is evidence that employers provide and pay for general training, and that the provision of skills … training. While there is little if any evidence in support of under-provision because of liquidity constraints to the demand … encourages labor turnover. The combination of these two facts suggests that the labor market provides less training than optimal …

This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed … education and schools over vocational and higher education to training and lifelong learning. The available evidence suggests … deliver best results. Designed this way, education and training systems can advance efficiency and equity at the same time. …

wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country … training, both firm-specific and general. While the finding for firm-specific training is consistent with both competitive and … non-competitive approaches, the result for general training is only consistent with the non-competitive approach. …