This paper uses micro data from Oregon to measure the gender and minority training gaps in apprenticeship training. Its … methodological innovation is the use of on-the-job training credit hours of exiting workers as the measure of the quantity of … training. Apprentices who started training between 1991 and 2002 are followed through 2007. Controlling for individual and …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job … characteristics, we find a difference between males and females in the correlation of training with job satisfaction which is positive … effects. To gain insights into the reasons for this difference, we further investigate training characteristics by gender. We …

, business training is positively associated with sales performance of men entrepreneurs, but has no effect on women. However …, this does not call for abolishing training programs for women entrepreneurs. Instead their design and targeting should be …