In the extensive literature on the employment impact of public-sponsored training programmes for the unemployed …, insufficient attention has been paid to the differential impact of different types of programmes and training duration. This paper … years, to evaluate the impact of a range of government-sponsored training courses in Ireland. Overall, we found that those …

Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However …, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary … agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often previously unemployed, paid work in combination with training should lead …