Household Panel to ask whether local density affects employer-provided training. We find that training is less frequent in …-provided training by 0.07, more than 20 percent of the average incidence of training in the UK during the sample period. …

Although regional resources have been shown to influence secessionist conflicts in developing countries, their effect … discoveries off its coast. We document an economically and statistically significant positive effect of regional resources and …

contest effects if the degree of group competition over valuable resources is sufficiently small. Regressions using …

, reducing conflicts over scarce resources in contested areas. This suggests that market-based solutions are a promising pathway …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

training. While there is little if any evidence in support of underprovision because of liquidity constraints to the demand … side of the market, there is evidence that employers provide and pay for general training, and that the provision of skills … encourages labor turnover. The combination of these two facts suggests that the labor market provides less training than optimal …

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 … non-competitive approaches, the result for general training is only consistent with the non-competitive approach. …

-competent workforce, as supported by firms’ training and recruitment plans. Conversely, ODT investment does not significantly alter total …