training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989. Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is … concentrated among the more highly educated, and in the service sector and in public administration. Much of this training seems to … be general and provided to workers by their employers at no direct cost. On the other hand, the training also does not …

We study the allocation and productivity consequences of training production line supervisors in soft skills via a … randomized controlled trial. Consistent with standard practice for training investments within firms, we asked middle managers … -- who sit above supervisors in the hierarchy -- to nominate members of their supervisory team for training. Program access …

Although economic models of training decisions are framed in terms of a company's calculation of the costs and benefits … of such training, empirical work has never been able to test this model directly on company behavior. This paper utilizes … a unique database to analyze the determinants of the variation in formal training across businesses and the impact of …

to also invest in its training resources …

doing and on-the-job training. In our economy with learning by doing, individuals supply more labor early in the life cycle … accumulate skills by on-the-job training, there are only weak effects on both the steady-state labor supply and its volatility …

A simplified model is constructed to analyze the role played by vocational training programs In high schools. The model … are two types of jobs for high school graduates. One job requires training that either can be obtained from a vocational … program in high school or as general training on the job. The other job has no special training requirements. The model is …

. Most of this research focuses on the impact of teacher salaries, experience, and measures of teachers' pre-service training … such as educational background. The effect of on-the-job or in-service training has received much less attention. In this … paper, we estimate the effect of in-service teacher training on children's reading and mathematics achievement in Jerusalem …

The recent literature on evaluating manpower training programs demonstrates that alternative nonexperimental estimators …

This chapter considers means-tested employment and training programs in the United States. We focus in particular on … large, means-tested federal programs, including the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), its successor the Workforce …

This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When … training affects worker sorting to firms, sample selection is no longer binary but is "multilayered". This paper extends the … job training on wage rates across firms with a weighted-average of the contrast in wages between different firms for a …