the training on store- and individual- level productivity. The intervention was more effective in boosting leadership than … findings confirm the possibility of increasing productivity through training targeting critical soft-skills. …This paper examines a training intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among employees of a …

Understanding the causal association between skills and productivity is essential for designing effective training … increasing productivity through training programs targeting critical skills. … difference-in-difference strategy. The results indicate large positive effects of the training program on store …

paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use …. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct effect benefitting the firms actually increasing their digital … intensity, and an indirect effect of belonging to a sector with high digital intensity. The firm-level productivity premium of …

societies. Previous research finds variation in occupation-related training participation by worker and workplace … overall further training is scarce. To close this research gap, we analyze the role of personality for further training … participation. First, we compare how the Big Five Personality Dimensions relate to different training types by differentiating …

Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that … lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital intensive firms are the … most likely to offer training unless they are liquidity constrained. If firms are not liquidity constrained, the fund could …

especially with regard to time use and cross-productivity with cognition. We find that individuals with higher task effectiveness …

with respect to the ability of their employees when training is certified by credible external institutions. We apply an … institutions at that the end of apprenticeship training can be signalled to outside employers. Apprenticeship graduates however … cannot signal their work-related ability – measured by a small voluntary bonus paid by the training employer – to the outside …