findings confirm the possibility of increasing productivity through training targeting critical soft-skills. …This paper examines a training intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among employees of a … the training on store- and individual- level productivity. The intervention was more effective in boosting leadership than …

growth. Each of these results are consistent with wage compression that skills acquired through training and learning …Firms frequently provide general skill training to workers at the firm's cost. Theories proposed that labor market … frictions entails wage compression, larger productivity gain than wage growth to skill acquisition, and motivates a firm to …

We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the … impact (in both the statistical sense and more broadly) on productivity, as measured at a geographical level; this appears to … be driven by higher-skilled workers. The results for training are less clear, but suggest that higher-skilled immigration …

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in affected cohorts, but plausibly had no impact on the distribution of … ability. We show that a Choo and Siow (2006) model with sorting on cohort, qualifications, and latent ability is identified …

suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We … important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …

entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland …, business training is positively associated with sales performance of men entrepreneurs, but has no effect on women. However …, this does not call for abolishing training programs for women entrepreneurs. Instead their design and targeting should be …

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 …

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