Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By … outcomes before and after exposure to training and sanctions. We find that training improves cardiovascular and mental health …

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human … capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of … employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the heterogeneity of treatment effects according to the timing of training during …

where firms who match with entrant workers have to incur training costs. As a result, firms are biased against entrant …

The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Using German … register data - the IAB Employment Sample - we find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have … longer first-job durations but not higher wages than apprentices leaving the training firm. Retention rates, first job …

This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field …. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are … extent of personnel training in the EU and the United States. …

This paper uses micro data from Oregon to measure the gender and minority training gaps in apprenticeship training. Its … methodological innovation is the use of on-the-job training credit hours of exiting workers as the measure of the quantity of … training. Apprentices who started training between 1991 and 2002 are followed through 2007. Controlling for individual and …