training of their workers. However, when search costs are low because there is a large availability of skilled workers on the … the market rather than provide training to inexperienced workers. In this paper, these aspects are studied through a model … with search and matching frictions. In order to empirically verify the relationship between training and labour market …

analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a …-time or fixed-term employment statuses are all associated with less training. Furthermore, in line with recent non …-competitive training models, higher levels of wage compression (measured in absolute or relative terms) are positively related to training. …

We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 … employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the training (general or specific); who funds the … training (employee or employer); and the skill levels of the recipient (white or blue collar). Using decomposition analysis, we …

analyse the incidence and duration of employee training in Britain. We find training to be positively associated with having a …-time or fixed-term employment statuses are all associated with less training. Furthermore, in line with recent non …-competitive training models, higher levels of wage compression (measured in absolute or relative terms) are positively related to training. …

We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for … British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill … levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the age of the employee; and if the training is with the current employer or …

requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are … training in order to upgrade the skill level of their workforce, even if this varies across industries. …

requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are … training in order to upgrade the skill level of their workforce, even if this varies across industries. …

temporarily without a job mission and training for workers with or without a job mission) allow for a flexicurity model. The … is mitigated when it is associated with training activities. In general, flexibility produces negative effects, albeit … decreasing with training activity, on productivity. …

When labor markets are imperfectly competitive, firms may be willing to finance general training if the wage structure … is compressed, that is, if the increase of productivity after training is greater than the increase in pay. We propose a … novel way of testing this proposition, which exploits the variation in training incidence and in the training wage premium …

. We then separately analyze active and passive labor market policies, consisting in training programs and income support … schemes. We show that it is optimal for the government to include among the eligibility criteria for subsidized training a …