Can participation in job-related training foster adults' general skills such as numeracy? Although job-related training is typically designed to foster job- and firm-specific skills, cross-sectional evidence suggests that it may also foster general skills. However, a positive cross-sectional...

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...