coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …. Relative to uncovered workers, union-covered men are more likely to receive training and also receive more days of training. In … addition, union-covered men experience greater returns to training, and coveredtrained workers face a higher wage growth. While …

According to the classical human capital theory general training is entirely financed by workers. This prediction is at … odds with the empirical evidence. This observation inspired new theoretical models of training in frictional labour market …. These frictions create incentives for firms to invest in general training. This paper tries to identify the sources of …

This paper investigates the relation between workers on-the-job training activities and the degree of wage compression … in their occupation. With respect to general training as opposed to firm-specific training human capital theory implies … that the worker initiates and finances the training when there is a negative relationship. A positive relation between …

This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college … wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap … in training participation between high- and low-skill workers is smaller within these firms. To understand the aggregate …

-the-job training. Our analysis focuses on Germany which provides an interesting context to test this hypothesis, due to its large scale … analysis, we first develop a model of firm-financed training. A novel feature of our model is that a unionised and non … regarding apprenticeship training, layoffs, wage cuts, and wage compression in unionized and nonunionised firms. Our empirical …