?advantage? previously enjoyed by men in respect of training incidence and reported in earlier work in the literature has been … reversed. The present paper explores the sources of the gender differential in training incidence using Labour Force Survey …

regulations. There is also clear evidence in the data that firms facing tight regulations invest more in training and make greater … innovating firms, tend to rely more on on-the-job training if labor regulations make hiring and firing very costly. …

-the-job training. Our analysis focuses on Germany which provides an interesting context to test this hypothesis, due to its large scale … analysis, we first develop a model of firm-financed training. A novel feature of our model is that a unionised and non … regarding apprenticeship training, layoffs, wage cuts, and wage compression in unionized and nonunionised firms. Our empirical …

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 …

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries …, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is … higher among individuals with more education, I find that the relationship between educational attainment and training …

The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Our paper … contributes to the ongoing debate as to why firms are willing to invest in such training even though many apprentices will leave … the training firm soon after completion of the apprenticeship. Using German register data – the IAB Employment Sample – we …

. The results also show that more intensive training is associated with greater initial earnings losses but also greater …

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … and negative relationship between educational attainment and on the job training and no significant relationship between … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …

smaller training costs, so that the welfare implications of each type of economy are a priori ambiguous: no model dominates …