the latter, hourly labour costs are weaker in Wallonia than in the two other regions. Performance in the field of training … employee participation rate. The first indicator, that is, the training budget as a percentage of staff costs, was estimated at … 1.2 p.c. in 2006. There was a further but small increase in the rate of employee participation in training : only 36.4 p …

breakdown of staff numbers by educational level. On average, women tend to have a more intensive level of training than men …. Workers’ educational requirements vary considerably according to the branch of activity. Since the year 2008, training … activities have been broken down between formal and informal vocational training and initial training, whereas before only formal …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of skill shortages on the supply of training within New Zealand … Survey 2008 (BOS 2008). The paper evaluates the impact of skills shortages on the incidence and intensity of training across … firms. A unique feature of the BSS module is the ability to measure differences in training intensity for three types of …

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

-competent workforce, as supported by firms’ training and recruitment plans. Conversely, ODT investment does not significantly alter total …

Do returns to training differ if training is accompanied by technological innovations at the workplace? We analyze this … allow for individual time trends. The findings indicate positive wage effects and more job stability for training … of new technology adoption and of training participation does not make individuals better off in terms of wages or job …

Do returns to training differ if training is accompanied by technological innovations at the workplace? We analyze this … allow for individual time trends. The findings indicate positive wage effects and more job stability for training … of new technology adoption and of training participation does not make individuals better off in terms of wages or job …

Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. This paper shows that profit … sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific training investments, either by enhancing wage flexibility or by … increasing the returns to training. As a result, profit sharing not only increases productivity by means of an effort effect, but …

In this paper, I analyse the relationship between job-related training and career progress of workers. Most theories of … empirical validity of such theories by analysing the effect of training on the career progress of an individual. I use the … sample of workers from twelve waves of the BHPS (1991-2002) to study the impact of training over the probability of making a …