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

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 …

Standard economic theory predicts that firms will not invest in general training and will underinvest in specific … training. Empirical evidence, however, indicates that firms do invest in general training of their workers. Evidence from … laboratory experiments points to less underinvestment in specific training than theory predicts. We propose a simple model in …

growth of temporary work, stressing the need to invest in training of temporary workers. Even though training has largely … been ignored by temporary work agencies (TWAs), they can improve their performance by training temporary workers …. Investment in such training pays off through higher fees and increased attractiveness of the agencies for workers and clients …

We consider the links between training, the quality of labour and establishment performance, using a proxy for … training, leading to potential variation in the optimal provision of education and training. Between 1998 and 2004, 16% of …, among establishments that do train, the survival prospects are not altered by the duration of training per employee. We …

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and … company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main … training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but …

requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are … training in order to upgrade the skill level of their workforce, even if this varies across industries. …