To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...

One of the most important policy goals in industrialized countries is to increase the skill level of the labor force by life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is determined either by (observed and unobserved)...

Using data from the National Educational Panel Study of 2009/2010, this paper investigates the relationship between regional training supply and employees ́training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local unemployment rate, the educational level, the population...

Nach Daten des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) hat 2011 nur jeder zweite Betrieb Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen zeitlich oder finanziell gefördert. Die Weiterbildungsquote der Beschäftigten lag bei weniger als einem Drittel. Bestimmte Gruppen, wie gering qualifizierte oder...

We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in...