training, which yields skills used primarily in the informal sector.  In this paper we use a 2006 urban based household survey … with detailed questions on the background, training and earnings of workers in both wage and self-employment to ask whether … apprenticeship pays off.  We show that apprenticeship is by far the most important institution providing training and is undertaken …

In this paper we ask how the returns to academic education compare with the return to two types of training drawing on … labour force data from Tanzania`s manufacturing sector. The first is vocational training or attending a technical college as … part of schooling, the second is on-the-job training in a firm. There has been much dispute in the literature as to whether …

This paper incorporates training in the design of unemployment policies. Human capital falls upon displacement and … continuously depreciates during unemployment. While training counters the decrease in human capital, it also affects the … willingness of the unemployed to search. I characterize the optimal insurance contract when participation to training programs …

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To … endogeneity of input factors and training is applied. The productivity premium for a trained worker is estimated at 23%, while the … wage premium of training is estimated at 12%. Our results give support to recent theories that explain work related …

Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white … the observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training …, followed by a gradual movement to white-collar occupations. The estimated rates of return to local training, local experience …

We analyze a model where a multinational firm can use a superior technology in a foreign subsidiary only after training …

training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large … paper examines the need for and effectiveness of training policy, and provides a possible explanation for why Western …

terms of transaction costs, the US pay on average higher search/hiring costs in the labour market, and smaller training …