In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of … wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country … training, both firm-specific and general. While the finding for firm-specific training is consistent with both competitive and …

Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training … recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm training to the overall stock of worker human capital. We engage with … research on the determinants of receipt of firm training, the effects of firm training on workers outcomes, and various policy …

A well-established stylised fact is that employer provided job-related training raises productivity and wages. Using UK … data, we further find that job-related training is positively related to subsidies aimed at reducing training costs for … employers. We also find that there is a positive, albeit quantitatively small, relationship between wage inequality and training …

This paper considers the optimal level of firm-specific training by taking into account the positive effect of training … employment separation rate by introducing firm-specific training. Firm-specific training creates a rent that is lost if the …. This implies that firm-specific training can decrease current wages as it implies a credible commitment to lower future …