promoting training and the extent to which the productivity effects of training are shared with employees. …This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance …. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of …

The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a … dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training … presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor …

This paper provides more insight into the relevance of the assumption of human capital theory that the productivity of … 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 …

Using a "fuzzy" regression discontinuity design, we examine the short-run impacts of a vocational training program on … Employment Fund training program, which funds training workshops offered to eligible individuals. We find striking positive … effects of training on self-employment among transformative entrepreneurs. Among individuals who our analysis identifies as …

also crucial. All these changes lead to a major rethinking of education and skill training throughout a person’s life. This …