the aim of improving the integration prospects of struggling youths. Among the most common programs used are training … for training and wage subsidies, whereas the effects for public work programs are clearly negative. The evidence on the …

training. While there is little if any evidence in support of underprovision because of liquidity constraints to the demand … side of the market, there is evidence that employers provide and pay for general training, and that the provision of skills … encourages labor turnover. The combination of these two facts suggests that the labor market provides less training than optimal …

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 … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between educational attainment and training …

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. …

the aim of improving the integration prospects of struggling youths. Among the most common programs used are training … for training and wage subsidies, whereas the effects for public work programs are clearly negative. The evidence on the …

This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund … two years before entering the programme. We find that the short-term impact of the training programs is negative …