have become priorities for policymakers. Training specifically designed for older workers might help attain these goals …, since it may refresh human capital and reduce the pay-productivity gap. Training older workers might also benefit employers …

have become priorities for policymakers. Training specifically designed for older workers might help attain these goals …, since it may refresh human capital and reduce the pay-productivity gap. Training older workers might also benefit employers …

where on-the-job training is important, job candidates with a record of grade retention are 16% less likely to receive a …

where on-the-job training is important, job candidates with a record of grade retention are 16% less likely to receive a …

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

-sponsored training. Using matched worker-firm data from Dutch manufacturing, our paper empirically assesses the validity of these … predictions. We find that a decrease in labor market frictions significantly reduces firms' training expenditures. Instead …, product market competition does not have an effect on firm-sponsored training. We conclude that increasing competition through …