Purpose – This paper aims to examine the impact of vocational training on unemployed workers not typically studied …: women enrolled in engineering or computer programming training and high school dropouts. Design/methodology/approach – Using … data from New Jersey's Individual Training Grant (ITG) program and a quasi‐experimental design, the study compares the ITG …

education and training, and the emergence of a permanent labour surplus economy.  …Reviewing the persistence of high levels of unemployment in the EU, finds that this has been accompanied by an …

‐term unemployed (LTU) lack formal education and training, a retraining and temporary job creation scheme has been in operation for the … last two years. Reports on research and development in education and training of adult LTUs. Concludes that wider …Describes Denmark′s new strategies, designed to cope with and overcome long‐term unemployment. Since the long …

Deplores the paucity of vocational education and training (VET) in the UK, especially for the young, citing bad …, arguing for full‐time versus part‐time training, specialized versus general, adults versus youths, and employer versus self …‐sponsorship. Discusses training vis‐à‐vis free tuition, traineeship, required attendance, accreditation and administration, and concludes …

Examines the link between the institutional structure of the market for training and economic performance. Suggests … that the market for training has a major potential for failure and that institutional structures are eeded to mitigate this …

training, stay with the firm that supplied their training and, if so, how long that job tenure holds. Determinants of both … in order to collect the returns from their investment in their training, which frequently is associated with net costs …. On the other hand, the firms dismiss apprentices if training is viewed by themselves as a screening device or if …

‐evaluated vis‐à‐vis both their labour‐market policies. We present a statistical comparison of employment and unemployment in the two …

In Austria, the apprenticeship system provides all citizens, including the less able among them, with a training option … with an apprenticeship diploma. As control groups, workers with a full‐time secondary school education and workers who did … not receive any further education after completing their compulsory education were used. One of the main findings is that …