examine the effects of education, training and technology use on productivity and wages at the firm level. They make … training programs; the greater the proportion of workers who receive computer training; and the greater the firm’s export … orientation. A key finding with important policy implications is that computer skills training can augment the qualifications of …

A macroeconomic model is developed that incorporates a technology for on-the-job training into the endogenous growth …-the-job training and countercyclical investment in human capital through formal training. …

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 …

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 …

account the selective acquisition of school qualifications, and the selective choice of vocational training programs with … entering initial vocational training in Germany – the grade attained also proves to have a strong effect on the risk of … capital endowments such as experience, tenure, and on‐the‐job‐training increase.  …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to derive an empirical method to identify different types of training strategies …' training strategies. Findings – It was shown that companies' motivation for apprenticeship training in Germany is not … is well suited to classify substitution‐motivated training firms but it is less precise in identifying the investment …

This study advances on previous research training and turnover in two ways. First, insights from the human capital … perspective are contrasted with insights from the commitment perspective. Second, several aspects of training are simultaneously … studied in one model: training intensity (incidence and duration), specificity (type of training, location, and objectives …

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse two competing approaches to accounting for a firm's investment in staff‐training … activities: the accounting and labour economics approach (which argues that no asset should be recognized from training activity … firm success. The authors used document analysis and interviews to help understand the training phenomenon from a company …

benefits, which organizations can reap from such investments. It further finds that the organizations investing in training and …