This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and … company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main … training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but …

of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …

of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …

enterprises to focus more on job-specific training than on formal education of the labour force. Using cross-country data from the … textiles and garments industry, we demonstrate that training indeed has greater impact on firm efficiency in developing …

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 …

productivity improvements resulting from increased education and training could exceed those from increased technological adoption …

We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS which contains detailed records … of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages … of formal training and experience in defining the evolution of wages and employment careers, conditional on education …