analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a …-time or fixed-term employment statuses are all associated with less training. Furthermore, in line with recent non …-competitive training models, higher levels of wage compression (measured in absolute or relative terms) are positively related to training. …

Do government provided training programs benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the … training. Although theoretically training may have several outcomes, most evaluations have focused on only one outcome of … training: the expected wage. However, training might have no direct effect on wage, but, nevertheless, affect employment …

After graduation many students start working in sectors not related to their field of study or participate in training …

moderating factors play an important role. While teamwork interacts positively with employer-provided further training and a …

workers who participated in firm-specific training in their early careers retire earlier than workers with a general training … background. This indicates that shared investments in firm-specific training are embedded in implicit contracts that induce early …

warranted by Scottish evidence. Company-sponsored job training yields a higher return for the most able and so this form of … investment will exacerbate the gaps it is intended to close. For the same reason, public job training is not likely to help adult …

training policies should therefore be reformulated. Skill formation is impaired when the returns to skill formation are low due …

We consider the links between training, the quality of labour and establishment performance, using a proxy for … training, leading to potential variation in the optimal provision of education and training. Between 1998 and 2004, 16% of …, among establishments that do train, the survival prospects are not altered by the duration of training per employee. We …

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of market-based approaches in the provision of public-sponsored training … programs. In particular, we study the link between training quality and labor earnings using a Peruvian program that targets … disadvantaged youths. Multiple proxies for training quality are identified from bidding processes in which public and private …