A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average … reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 per cent per course. The analyses reveal a … substantial heterogeneity between training courses, while wage effects reported in studies based on instrumental variables and …

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

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 …

-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 …

complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …

European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms … remain - and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over … the last six years examining trends, factors supporting training investment as well as the impact of the Covid-19 shock …

improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated … with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … running small firms in Athens (Greece) over three months, with data collected before and after the training. The analysis …

job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal … capital theory – that employees who participated in training or informal learning show greater improvement of their skills … of training participation. Nevertheless, both forms of learning are shown to be complementary. This complementarity …

training or other support. Both interventions had economically large and statistically significant impacts on income over the …