Firm training is key to meeting changing skill demands, yet little is known about the role of workers' beliefs in shaping training participation. In a survey of 3,701 workers in Germany, we document that they expect substantial returns to firm training - both in terms of earnings and...

Despite substantial investment in skills training worldwide, evidence for the effectiveness of such interventions in sub-Saharan Africa is still relatively sparse. We contribute to this literature by implementing a multisite randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Professionalization of...

We analyze the impact of AI-augmented training on worker productivity in a financial services company. The company introduced an AI tool that provides performance feedback on call center agents to guide their training. To estimate causal effects, we exploit the staggered roll out of the AI-tool....