European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms … remain – and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over … the last six years examining trends, factors supporting training investment as well as the impact of the Covid-19 shock …

complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …

complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …

Do returns to training differ if training is accompanied by technological innovations at the workplace? We analyze this … allow for individual time trends. The findings indicate positive wage effects and more job stability for training … of new technology adoption and of training participation does not make individuals better off in terms of wages or job …

In this paper, I analyse the relationship between job-related training and career progress of workers. Most theories of … empirical validity of such theories by analysing the effect of training on the career progress of an individual. I use the … sample of workers from twelve waves of the BHPS (1991-2002) to study the impact of training over the probability of making a …

This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in … training, but did not do so because of a random event like course cancellation by the provider of training. We find no impact …

This paper examines a training intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among employees of a … the training on store- and individual- level productivity. The intervention was more effective in boosting leadership than … findings confirm the possibility of increasing productivity through training targeting critical soft-skills. …

job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal … capital theory – that employees who participated in training or informal learning show greater improvement of their skills … of training participation. Nevertheless, both forms of learning are shown to be complementary. This complementarity …