or more days over the period 1981–91. Our analysis suggests that reliance on work-related training to improve the skills … 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 …

between vocational skills and available jobs, the record of vocational schooling has been more positive. Israel constitutes a …

graduates over hospital training vacancies. Our methodology is therefore a revealed preference approach. Our methodology for …

training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large … proportion of the workforce is unskilled, firms have little incentive to provide good jobs (requiring high skills and providing … high wages), and if few good jobs are available, workers have little incentive to acquire skills. In this context, the …

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 …