We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for … British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill … levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the age of the employee; and if the training is with the current employer or …

analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a …-time or fixed-term employment statuses are all associated with less training. Furthermore, in line with recent non …-competitive training models, higher levels of wage compression (measured in absolute or relative terms) are positively related to training. …

In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of … wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. I find that, after controlling for individual factors and … compression and training. This positive relationship is confirmed when I consider only general training. While the former finding …

firm training have thus far not been considered. This paper is trying to bridge this gap by using a simple two period model … to previous work this is not sufficient to increase firms' training investments. The reason lies in the endogeneity of …

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …. Relative to uncovered workers, union-covered men are more likely to receive training and also receive more days of training. In … addition, union-covered men experience greater returns to training, and coveredtrained workers face a higher wage growth. While …

Becker?s theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers … because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. In contrast, in noncompetitive labor … markets, minimum wages tend to increase training of affected workers because they induce firms to train their unskilled …

In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the … impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two …-in-differences techniques for the period 1998 to 2000, we find no evidence that the introduction of the minimum wage reduced the training of …

According to the classical human capital theory general training is entirely financed by workers. This prediction is at … odds with the empirical evidence. This observation inspired new theoretical models of training in frictional labour market …. These frictions create incentives for firms to invest in general training. This paper tries to identify the sources of …