temporarily without a job mission and training for workers with or without a job mission) allow for a flexicurity model. The … is mitigated when it is associated with training activities. In general, flexibility produces negative effects, albeit … decreasing with training activity, on productivity. …

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … also holds for older workers, suggesting that firm-provided training may be an important instrument to retain older workers … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual …

incentive for employers. Some assumptions underlying the employer subsidy are: that apprenticeship training is a principal … contributor to the skilled trades labour supply; that employers of apprentices typically incur high training cost and risks; and …-occupational differences in the certification rate and in the ratio of certified to less-than-certified workers, suggesting a de facto …

This paper considers evidence on the impact of ICT on demand for different types of workers, focusing in particular on … have adversely affected older workers, in particular high skilled males aged 50 and over. The paper then uses data from the … variations in on the job training. It shows that training linked to ICT use can explain some of the wage variation and that …

The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time …-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm … has ex-post monopsonistic power that drives trained workers’ wages below the socially-optimal level. The emergence of …

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …

The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons whyfirms pay for the general skills of … their workers, but without explaining which firmstrain which workers. This paper develops a theory that both explains the … willingnessof firms to pay for general training, and accounts for the pattern of training provisionempirically observed. It is …

requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the newskills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are … workers from and to the external labourmarket, whereas two-thirds are due to promotions. Moreover, we find no compelling … evidenceof external labour market strategies based on “excess turnover”. In contrast, French firmsheavily rely on training in …

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact onproductivity and wages. To … wage premium of training is estimated at 12%. Our results give support to recent theoriesthat explain work related training …

participate in vocational training? As the study shows, the largest 50 companies in Berlin account for more than every sixth … vocational training. This is particularly relevant because the majority of companies have very low training rates. …