Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However …, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary … agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often previously unemployed, paid work in combination with training should lead …

Summary: The paper assesses the heterogeneity of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training … relates each value of the dose, i.e. days of training, to the individual post-treatment probability of employment (the … advantage that we can consider both the actual and the planned durations of training as treatment variables: if only actual …