empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-99. We find that labour market training is the …

Do government provided training programmes benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the … training. Although theoretically training may have several outcomes, most evaluations have focused on only one outcome of … training: the expected wage. Training might have no direct effect on wage, however, but it affects employment probability in …

like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training …

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 …

the determinants of work-related training. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of the 1958 birth … the number of work-related training events lasting at least three days. This approach takes into account the fact that … more than one-half of the men and two-thirds of the women in the sample experienced no work-related training lasting three …

turnover and endogenous general human capital formation. We show that search frictions do not distort training decisions if … efficient coordination devices there is too much turnover and too little investments in general training. Nonetheless, the … number of training firms and the amount of training provided are constrained optimal, and training subsidies therefore reduce …

The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time …-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm …-post monopsonistic power in wage determination. Local union-firm wage bargaining ensures that the post-training wage is set sufficiently …