in apprenticeship training. Firms gain from the apprentice’s contributions to production, reduced turnover and training …

, counseling, training, and placement services. Such programs can be expensive, however, which underscores the need to focus on …

have become priorities for policymakers. Training specifically designed for older workers might help attain these goals …, since it may refresh human capital and reduce the pay-productivity gap. Training older workers might also benefit employers …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

Standard economic theory predicts that firms will not invest in general training and will underinvest in specific … training. Empirical evidence, however, indicates that firms do invest in general training of their workers. Evidence from … laboratory experiments points to less underinvestment in specific training than theory predicts. We propose a simple model in …

and the early 2000s. We compare the training participation of pre- and post-reform cohorts of private sector employees and … estimate that adding one year to minimum retirement age increases training incidence by 6.9 to 10.7 percent, depending on the … empirical specification. We find that policies that increase the residual working horizon are effective in increasing training …

The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for firm …-specific training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This implies that training participation should … is supported empirically. Specifically, we find that employees are significantly less likely to participate in training …

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity …

In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers …