regional training supply and employees ́training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local … unemployment rate, the educational level, the population density and the regional industry composition, the results indicate that … training participation is significantly higher in regions with many firms in the training supply market. The predictive power …

This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in … training, but did not do so because of a random event like course cancellation by the provider of training. We find no impact …

life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is … determinants of training. Rather than analyzing single determinants or groups of variables, we decompose the variation into a … show that both firm-, job- and worker-level heterogeneity explains training participation and that firm heterogeneity is …

besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior … long-term unemployment. Training programmes organised by labour offices should not be regarded as a panacea for the …We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …