analysing the determinants of their use, particularly in terms of the incidence of environmental training activities for …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity. Using a new panel of British industries 1983 …-1996 and a variety of estimation techniques we find that work-related training is associated with significantly higher …

business set-up and expansion or increased income. At a disaggregate level by outcome groups, providing a package of training … business training for existing entrepreneurs than other interventions to improve business performance. …

This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training …?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor demands indicate that training complements ICT but not other capital goods. SYS …?GMM estimates of production functions reveal that ICT capital is most productive if complemented by training measures in skill …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …

training stay with the firm where they have received their training and, if so, how long that job tenure holds. Determinants of … apprentices in order to collect the returns from its investment in their training which frequently is associated with net costs …. On the other hand, the firm dismisses apprentices if training is viewed by the firm as a screening device or if …