training. While there is little if any evidence in support of underprovision because of liquidity constraints to the demand … side of the market, there is evidence that employers provide and pay for general training, and that the provision of skills … encourages labor turnover. The combination of these two facts suggests that the labor market provides less training than optimal …

We use a search and matching model to investigate the economic relationship between training and local economic … between local knowledge spillovers and training generates a positive correlation with local density; on the other hand, the … negative influence of higher wages in denser areas reduces training. Overall the relationship can be either positive or …

This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources - the CVTS, OECD … data and the European Community Household Panel. We outline the differences in training incidence and relate these … differences to the private costs and benefits of training, and to institutional factors such as unions, employment protection and …

how a firm's training propensity correlated with its labour productivity. To this end, we specified an equation for … training propensity and an equation for labour productivity, which included as an additional production factor the endogenized …

intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … further step, we analyzed the impact of apprentice training on labour productivity when apprentice training is considered as … negative role, even if not at the same extent, in determining the propensity and/or intensity of apprentice training. A further …

We consider the links between training, the quality of labour and establishment performance, using a proxy for … training, leading to potential variation in the optimal provision of education and training. Between 1998 and 2004, 16% of …, among establishments that do train, the survival prospects are not altered by the duration of training per employee. We …

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and … company allow us to address issues such as unobserved heterogeneity and the length of potential training effects. Our main … training. The effect on suggestions is however only short term. Promotion probabilities are largest directly after training but …

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. …