This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … and negative relationship between educational attainment and on the job training and no significant relationship between … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …

Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle … income countries. We report medium and long-term impacts of a job training program for vulnerable workers in Chile on labor … by course-type, training provider quality, and gender. This evidence aims at contributing to a better design of training …

This paper brings new evidence on the impact of The Peruvian Job Youth Training Program (Projoven). Compared with prior … also the first to measure impacts over a longer period: almost three years after training. Additionally, the evaluation … improved with program participation. The evaluation finds a high long term positive impact of Projoven on formal employment. It …

This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major … penalty of similar magnitude to the return on each year of schooling attained. Interestingly, when we split the sample by age …, we find that the wages of people aged under 35 basically depend on the level of education attained, while those of …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and …