Employee training plays a crucial role in the success of most organizations. Due to its developmental aspect, training is closely linked to core competencies and strategic focus. However, it is also one of the most widely outsourced HR functions in most western economies. This paper attempts to...

This paper, using the resource-based view of the firm as the theoretical background, is to determine whether the integration of training in the firm's business strategies increases the impact of training on the firm's competitiveness. A regression analysis of the data obtained from a survey of...

Training by firms is a central means by which workers accumulate human capital, yet firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere. “Training contracts” that impose a penalty for premature quitting can help alleviate this...

Personality traits drive behaviors and attitudes, and determine socio-economic life outcomes for individuals. This paper investigates the relationship of six personality traits, the Big Five and Locus of Control, to individual participation in employment-related further education and training...

The Information Technology - Business Process Management (IT-BPM) sector is one of the Philippines' strongest drivers of economic growth and employment and a potential driver of shared prosperity for the country. One potential enabler for IT-BPM is technical-vocational education and training...

Firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere. "Training contracts" that impose a penalty for premature quitting can help alleviate this inefficiency. Using plausibly exogenous contractual variation from a leading trucking firm, we...

This paper estimates the impacts of the Philippine Dual Training System (DTS) on labor market outcomes using a recent survey that tracked graduates from DTS and non-DTS programs provided by vocational training institutes. DTS programs partner with local employers to combine on-the-job training...

In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for firms, we hypothesize that (easier) access to cross-border workers will lead some employers to...

Firms that invest in R&D and at the same time in worker skills (on-the-job training) are expected to be more successful in innovation. However, it is less evident the extent to which these investments reinforce the impact of one another on innovation. This paper sheds some light on this issue by...

Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment for men and women. Availability of confidential data, along with a relatively rich set of observable covariates, lead us to the estimation of difference-in-differences matching...