regional training supply and employees' training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local … training participation is significantly higher in regions with many firms in the training supply market. The predictive power …

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We … start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via … differences in training quality and in the availability of internal labor markets, and that the access to large training firms …

-the-job training is the only management practice that is robustly and significantly associated with higher employment growth, increased …-the-job training is sub-optimal in Britain such that firms could benefit economically from increasing the amount of off …-the-job training they offer to their non-managerial employees. …

Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that … lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital intensive firms are the … most likely to offer training unless they are liquidity constrained. If firms are not liquidity constrained, the fund could …

Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white … 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 and …

smaller training costs, so that the welfare implications of each type of economy are a priori ambiguous: no model dominates …

nonsubsidized, in the market or non-market sector, if there is no training accompanied by skill certification. In particular, we … find no stigma effect associated with subsidized or non-market sector work experience. Moreover, training accompanied by …

participation in a training program to simulate placebo treatment durations. We first use these simulations to examine which …