substitute for workers with completed vocational training. New capital goods are substitutive to low unskilled labor whereas the …

extensive use of temporary workers. Furthermore, these effects are at work only for the use of non-training temporary contracts …, while training temporary contracts are not affected by unions, volatility and their interplay. We argue that this occurs … because non-training temporary contracts can be used by firms as a buffer stock to cope with uncertainty and by unions to …

of the returns to general training and be willing to pay for it despite its general nature. However this outcome is not … efficient, in the sense that too few workers are trained and workers who are hired receive too little training. We consider how … different institutions can affect this inefficiency. Industry-level minimum wages can remove the training inefficiency and …

-based training, as well as its relative intensity. Relying on a job competition mechanism of skill formation, we stress the role of … the strategic complementarity between innovation and firm organization. Our results show that training propensity is … hold particularly for the decision to provide both formal and informal training together. Finally, R&D and techno …

of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training …