Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be … due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper … addresses the question whether the complementarity between education and training is causal. The identification is based on …

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

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

compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …

We use a randomized controlled trial to examine the short- and mid-term impacts of a best-practice training program on …

compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …

The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for firm …-specific training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This implies that training participation should … is supported empirically. Specifically, we find that employees are significantly less likely to participate in training …

regional training supply and employees' training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local … training participation is significantly higher in regions with many firms in the training supply market. The predictive power …

to take up on-the-job training, to climb up the career ladder, or to eventually leave to professions more suitable to … overeducated workers have a significantly higher probability to take up on-the-job training than adequately educated workers and …

"communication and soft skills" training which is associated with more non-routine interactive tasks. …This study investigates the impact of non-formal training on job tasks of workers. The analysis is based on panel data … indicate that after training workers are more engaged in non-routine interactive tasks than they were before training. Analyses …