firm training have thus far not been considered. This paper is trying to bridge this gap by using a simple two period model … to previous work this is not sufficient to increase firms' training investments. The reason lies in the endogeneity of …

probability to participate in different training measures. We find that training participation probabilities are inverted u …-shaped with age and that longer training measures are undertaken earlier in life and working career, respectively. These findings …

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and … company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main … training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but …

have become priorities for policymakers. Training specifically designed for older workers might help attain these goals …, since it may refresh human capital and reduce the pay-productivity gap. Training older workers might also benefit employers …

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 … of training participation. Nevertheless, both forms of learning are shown to be complementary. This complementarity …

life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is … determinants of training. Rather than analyzing single determinants or groups of variables, we decompose the variation into a … show that both firm-, job- and worker-level heterogeneity explains training participation and that firm heterogeneity is …

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

The objective of this paper is to model and estimate the impact of labour training financed by the firm on labour … demand in Belgium, introducing training potential productivity and cost effects. To model this influence, we assume profit … maximizing firms producing under a short run monopolistic competition regime. We emphasize that training variables, both …

analyze the effect of age on the probability of participating in different employer-financed training measures. We find that … training participation probabilities are inverted u-shaped with age and that longer training measures are undertaken earlier in …