major policy initiatives for upgrading and expanding worker training to bolster productivity and wages: 1) Improve access to … in-demand training through better information, technology, and targeted funding; 2) Strengthen connections between career … and technical education and training and employer needs through competency-based training, career pathways, and improved …

job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal … capital theory – that employees who participated in training or informal learning show greater improvement of their skills … of training participation. Nevertheless, both forms of learning are shown to be complementary. This complementarity …

Does better access to skilled workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers …-in-Differences estimates suggest that firm-provided training and access to skilled workers are not necessarily substitutes: opening the borders …

wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country … training, both firm-specific and general. While the finding for firm-specific training is consistent with both competitive and … non-competitive approaches, the result for general training is only consistent with the non-competitive approach. …