on workers' training participation. We use unique matched survey and administrative data for male employees in the Dutch … in training courses among older employees, although exclusively for those employed in large organizations. …

So far the literature has found that the effect of macroeconomic fluctuations on training decisions is ambiguous. On … the one hand, the opportunity cost to train is lower during downturns, and thus training should be counter-cyclical. On … training incidence pro-cyclical. Using the Canadian panel of Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) we find that (i) training …

probability to participate in different training measures. We find that training participation probabilities are inverted u …-shaped with age and that longer training measures are undertaken earlier in life and working career, respectively. These findings …

In this paper, we analyze the transition to the labour market of participants in vocational training in Madeira Island … the completion of the training program) depends on relevant variables, such as age, gender, education and the content and … duration of the training. In a second stage, we use the individuals' self-assessment regarding the effectiveness of the …

This paper examines how expected attachment to the labor market and expected tenure at a specific firm affect training … participation in both employer- and worker-initiated training, while expected tenure at a specific firm mainly explains … participation in employer-initiated training. These two attachment indices explain almost half of the gender gap in training …

training. While there is little if any evidence in support of underprovision because of liquidity constraints to the demand … side of the market, there is evidence that employers provide and pay for general training, and that the provision of skills … encourages labor turnover. The combination of these two facts suggests that the labor market provides less training than optimal …

We use a search and matching model to investigate the economic relationship between training and local economic … between local knowledge spillovers and training generates a positive correlation with local density; on the other hand, the … negative influence of higher wages in denser areas reduces training. Overall the relationship can be either positive or …

This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources - the CVTS, OECD … data and the European Community Household Panel. We outline the differences in training incidence and relate these … differences to the private costs and benefits of training, and to institutional factors such as unions, employment protection and …