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 …

We analyse Polish active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view …. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …

This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different … training forms in Germany. It hereby takes account of selectivity of training activities, unobserved heterogeneity of … a smaller positive impact, while training on the job, seminars and talks and job rotation do not affect productivity …

besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior … long-term unemployment. Training programmes organised by labour offices should not be regarded as a panacea for the …

This paper develops a theoretical analysis of training regimes as outcomes of a complementarity between organizational … training, while, on the other, labor market institutionalization provides the framework for workers' preferences. Applying a … correspond to the Japanese model of training, while the latter conforms more to the German experience. …

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 … is consistent with both competitive and non - competitive approaches to training, the latter result is only consistent …

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … and negative relationship between educational attainment and on the job training and no significant relationship between … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity …

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries …, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is … training incidence varies significantly across countries and birth cohorts. I show that individuals have a higher training …