encouraged additional firm-sponsored training despite pandemic-related restrictions indicating that investments in digital … technologies and training are complements. We then demonstrate that the additional investments helped firms to insure workers …

variety, two essential elements of flexibility. Critically, the training associated with workplace flexibility does not simply … modest evidence of an age bias of workplace flexibility. However, the link between workplace flexibility and training does … likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that …

addition to this, we also consider labor flexibility as an effective policy to deal with the adverse welfare effects of …

and non-telework jobs. Disability, employment, telework, pandemic, flexibility. …Telework has benefits for many people with disabilities. The pandemic may create new employment opportunities for …

rather fill employers' demands for different types of hard (e.g. language skills) and soft (e.g. flexibility, adaptability …) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment … better understanding of temporary skills-qualifications mismatch typical for student workers by analysing the preferences of …

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 …