place in regular community college classes. To analyze the effectiveness of such training, we link administrative earnings …

The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Our paper … contributes to the ongoing debate as to why firms are willing to invest in such training even though many apprentices will leave … the training firm soon after completion of the apprenticeship. Using German register data – the IAB Employment Sample – we …

We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various … forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages …. We initially present descriptive information about training: we find that most work-related training is viewed by its …

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 …

We use the variation of training policy over time and across Italian regions to identify the relationship between … individual training and earnings. Using longitudinal data for the period 1999 to 2005, we find that the marginal effect of one … additional week of formal training on monthly earnings is 4.4 percent. This effect declines rapidly over time and is equal to 0 …

warranted by Scottish evidence. Company-sponsored job training yields a higher return for the most able and so this form of … investment will exacerbate the gaps it is intended to close. For the same reason, public job training is not likely to help adult …

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 …

We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1 …) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2 …) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the returns to training, 3) a common payment for the whole workforce leads to …