with respect to the ability of their employees when training is certified by credible external institutions. We apply an … institutions at that the end of apprenticeship training can be signalled to outside employers. Apprenticeship graduates however … cannot signal their work-related ability - measured by a small voluntary bonus paid by the training employer - to the outside …

life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is … determinants of training. Rather than analyzing single determinants or groups of variables, we decompose the variation into a … show that both firm-, job- and worker-level heterogeneity explains training participation and that firm heterogeneity is …

This paper analyses the effect of the economic crisis in 2008 and 2009 on individual training activities of different … on individual training history (WeLL-ADIAB). The so-called Great Recession can be seen as an exogenous, unexpected, and … crisis on the training participation and the number of training measures. We find a direct negative effect of the crisis on …

This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees' retention in the training company. It for the …, visibility, and credibility of training. Based on an extensive German linked-employer-employee data set with detailed information … on training history (WeLL-ADIAB), we show that training increases employees' retention. We compare the probability to …

The present paper examines the wage effects of continuous training programs using individual-level data from the German … Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). In order to account for selectivity in training participation we estimate average treatment … effects (ATE and ATT) of general and firm-specific continuous training programs using several state-of-the-art propensity …

first to analyse these differences. Quality differences of apprenticeship quality between training firms that have been …

A number of studies have found that firms provide less training if they are located in regions with strong labor market … increases training establishments' probability of becoming poaching victims. However, poaching victims do not change their … apprenticeship training activity in reaction to past poaching. Instead, our findings indicate that the lower training activity in …

A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training … training firms in Germany are poaching victims. Firms are more likely to poach employees during an economic downturn. Training …

from the training firms' point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first … training firm retention rates. Additional training firm signals are high apprenticeship wages that signal a positive selection …