This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from … training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment and control groups with panel data on … individual worker performance before and after training. We find that participation in the training programme leads to a 10 …

This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from … training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment and control groups with panel data on … individual worker performance before and after training. We find that participation in the training programme leads to a 10 …

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 …

2010, firms invested more in formal and informal training for their workers, who also participated in such training in … training (alternating study and work experience) – which remains marginal. Firms operating in more than one Region are … considerably larger than the average and proportionately more numerous to report training activities in their social balance sheet …

in training participation over the considered period, 1996-2004. However, the decomposition analyses yield that … behavioral changes caused an increase in training particularly among older workers. This is confirmed by multivariate regressions … on pooled cross-sectional data: the increase in training probabilities is highest among older workers. …

The literature on the returns to training has pointed out that, immediately following a training episode, wages of … participants in employer-sponsored training increase substantially while wages of participants in government-sponsored training …-sponsored trainees are occupation switchers while most participants in employer-sponsored training are occupation stayers. An …

training, are as follows. Employment in the enterprises of the limited population increased by 0.3 p.c. on average between 2003 … the staff movements. The net inflow of workers has been broken down by their level of training and the gross outflow of … expressed by European and Belgian authorities, the formal training indicators again showed a drop in 2004, except for the …

of 2 to 5 between branches. Finally, in regard to training, the financial effort indicator declined once again in 2005 …. The training budget is estimated to be 1.05 p.c. of staff costs in 2005, against 1.13 p.c. in 2004 and a peak of 1.42 p ….c. in 2000. However, there was a slight increase in the rate of employees’ participation in training : 36 p.c. of workers …

. Despite a rise in the number of training firms, budgets for both formal and informal training were revised downwards in 2009 …. In all, firms devoted 1.63 p.c. of staff costs to training their workers, compared with 1.72 p.c. a year earlier, a …, except where informal training was concerned. …

discernible in terms of hourly costs, depending on the size and branch of activity of the companies. In terms of training, the … results for 2006 still fall well short of the set targets : training costs accounted for 1.17 p.c. of the total wage bill … in training was only 35.2 p.c. whereas a target has been set of 50 p.c. by 2010. Growth was nevertheless recorded between …