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 …

In this paper, we study how increasing the cognitive demands of multitasking affects time preferences. The novelty of … this paper is that it studies how time perception mediates the effect of multitasking on time preferences. Results from … of multitasking on time preferences. We also shed light on whether the observed relationship between time preferences and …

In Europe, accounting standards prevent larger expenditures on employer-sponsored training from being treated as … investments. Using Sweden as example, we discuss two consequences for training. <p> First, the timing: training will be conducted … when income is large enough for training costs to be deducted without loss. This is more often possible during booms than …