wage bills to continuous training. Indicates that since the Act of 16 July 1971 was passed there has been a marked increase … in expenditure on training and that the greatest benefits have gone to the most highly skilled employees. Concludes that …

Examines the extent and coverage of private‐sector training in Australia and offers an overview of recent Australian … Government initiatives in vocational education and training. Argues that Australia′s system of industrial relations diminishes … the potential for training at the workplace but suggests that recent changes in institutional arrangements may mitigate …

where firms who match with entrant workers have to incur training costs. As a result, firms are biased against entrant …

A well‐designed and executed training program minimizes new employee “on‐boarding” time and time …‐to‐first‐contribution. This paper presents considerations for the design of a two‐phase training program for new employees – an initial program … (addressing training requirements of a general group), and a detailed program (requiring skill mastery by individual functional …

increased two‐fold, paving the way for Lloyds TSB to develop a new company training, programmes, aimed specifically at …

Over the past decade, researchers have been increasingly concerned with the effects of training. Whereas Gary Becker … stated that employers pay for specific training and employees for general training, it is often argued that employers provide … general training as well and that this has a positive effect on labour productivity. So far empirical research does not …

On‐the‐job training has a large positive effect on wages for employees in Sweden, and employees in jobs that require … long on‐the‐job training earn significantly more than workers in jobs with short training requirements. The effects of … training are large for recently hired and low for senior employees. There are significant wage effects of general and specific …

complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …