. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe …. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms and trainees; for the group of non trainees potential negative effects … has been found in some studies. The incidence and the impact of training depend on the national education and training …

wages paid during vocational training as well as average wages, prestige, and socioeconomic status of the training … and being less satisfied with the vocational training. Participation in pre-vocational training does not lead to a … vocational training. Using a selection-on-observables approach I show that a delayed transition into vocational training after …

Amongst the active labor market policy programs for the unemployed in Sweden, the vocational employment training … program is the most ambitious and expensive. We analyze its effect on the individual transition rate from unemployment to … training and exit to work. The approach involves the estimation of duration models, and it allows us to quantify the individual …

of voucher training on wages, employment, job tasks and on subjective outcomes (in particular, the risk of job loss and …This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in …