We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...

This empirical study investigates the effect of the German disability law on employment dynamics, using data from the Federal Labour Office and the IAB Establish-ment Panel. The data allow us to analyze the second threshold of this law which stated (in our observation period 1999/2000) that...