"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 …

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 …

Do returns to training differ if training is accompanied by technological innovations at the workplace? We analyze this … allow for individual time trends. The findings indicate positive wage effects and more job stability for training … of new technology adoption and of training participation does not make individuals better off in terms of wages or job …

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 …

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 …

-traditional students can expect after enrolling in college rather than continuing with a vocational training-based career. Relying on the … training-based career. All treated individuals take up more prestigious jobs. Enrolling in college is on average associated … with at most 43 percent higher life-time earnings compared to earnings when continuing with a vocational training …

This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program "Bildungsprämie". The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in … training, but did not do so because of a random event like course cancellation by the provider of training. We find no impact …