Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find little evidence of an impact of such … policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults …-of-events methodology to control for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity, we find that training does not accelerate the exit from …

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …

We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for … British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill … levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the age of the employee; and if the training is with the current employer or …