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Training for jobs of the future : improving access, certifying skills, and expanding apprenticeship

Lerman, Robert Irving; Loprest, Pamela J.; Kuehn, Daniel - 2020

Long run labor market trends in the American economy pose significant challenges. The employment-to-population ratio has steadily fallen. Growth in real money wages has been slow, with the most rapid gains taking place among workers at the top of the earnings distribution. One source of these...

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Train drain? : access to skilled foreign workers and firms' provision of training

Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2021

Does better access to skilled workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the gradual opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the European Union affected the number of apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit...

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IT skills, occupation specificity and job separations

Eggenberger, Christian; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022

This paper examines how workers' earnings change after involuntary job separations depending on the workers' acquired IT skills and the specificity of their occupational training. We categorize workers' occupational skill bundles along two independent dimensions. First, we distinguish between...

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Is training effective for older workers? : training programs that meet learning needs of older workers can improve their employability

Picchio, Matteo - 2015

The labor market position of older workers is cause for concern in many industrialized countries. Rapid population aging is challenging pension systems. The recent economic crisis has forced many older adults out of the workforce, into either pre-retirement or non-employment. Encouraging people...

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The economic implications of training for firm performance

Martins, Pedro S. - 2022

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 training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...

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The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile

Doerr, Annabelle; Novella, Rafael - In: Labour economics : an international journal 91 (2024), pp. 1-14

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Evaluating apprenticeship training programs for firms : cost-benefit surveys of employers help design more effective training policies

Mühlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald - 2023

Apprenticeship training programs typically last several years and require substantial investments by training firms, largely due to the associated labor costs for participants and instructors. Nevertheless, apprentices also add significant value in the workplace. One tool to measure the costs...

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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Devlopment? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …

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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2009

both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … can be an effective tool to reduce unemployment in the long run, in particular if participation occurs early during … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …

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