be driven by higher-skilled workers. The results for training are less clear, but suggest that higher-skilled immigration … may have a positive impact on the training of native workers. We discuss the implications for post-Brexit immigration …

of the returns to general training and be willing to pay for it despite its general nature. However this outcome is not … efficient, in the sense that too few workers are trained and workers who are hired receive too little training. We consider how … different institutions can affect this inefficiency. Industry-level minimum wages can remove the training inefficiency and …

complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …

This paper uses longitudinal data of more than 13,000 firms to analyze the effects of on-the-job training on firm level … productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes … firms more productive. On-the-job training increases firm level measured productivity between 1 and 2%, compared to firms …

Firms frequently provide general skill training to workers at the firm's cost. Theories proposed that labor market … firms. We first document that the firm provides upfront training, and show that both workers' tenure and the initial fee … charged to clients are positively related to the length of training, but the initial wage paid to workers is not. We then …