Can participation in job-related training foster adults' general skills such as numeracy? Although job-related training … general skills. However, a positive cross-sectional relationship between training and skills could reflect training effects on … skills, self-selection into training of those with higher skills, or both. In this chapter, we aim to unravel these …

job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal … capital theory – that employees who participated in training or informal learning show greater improvement of their skills … of training participation. Nevertheless, both forms of learning are shown to be complementary. This complementarity …