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 …

Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. Basic estimates on an individual level do not … accompanied by positive training with regard to job satisfaction if we control for personal characteristics, working conditions …. The effects are stronger if the firm carries the training costs and if the share of trained workers within the firm …

Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. Basic estimates on an individual level do not … accompanied by positive training with regard to job satisfaction if we control for personal characteristics, working conditions …. The effects are stronger if the firm carries the training costs and if the share of trained workers within the firm …

proportions of skilled labour than those required by corresponding German firms, without lowering quality of output, mainly by … optimising the allocation of their limited stocks of skill between various tasks. They concentrate on retraining labour which is … already skilled, whereas German employers offer more apprentice training and wider retraining opportunities. In response to …

Compares the role of the recently established Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) with that of the relevant German …