Die neue Weiterbildungsliteratur zeigt auf, dass Arbeitgeber in monopsonistisch geprägten Märkten bereit sind, nicht nur die Kosten für firmenspezifische, sondern auch für allgemeine Weiterbildung zu tragen, wenn das Risiko, dass Mitarbeiter abgeworben werden, gering ist. Dies bedeutet, dass...

The spell-based nature of the National Educational Panel Study poses some challenges for analyzing training participation rates across waves. Raw training participation rates of each wave using courses compiled in the SpCourses data set and in the SpEmp data set differ by up to 75 percent across...

Using data from the National Educational Panel Study of 2009/2010, this paper investigates the relationship between regional training supply and employees’ training participation. Controlling for other regional factors such as the local unemployment rate, the educational level, the population...

This study analyzes the effects of a missing high school graduation cohort on firms' training provision and trainees' wages. An exogenous school reform varying at the state and year level caused the missing cohort to occur. Using administrative social security data on all trainees and training...