Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be … due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper … addresses the question whether the complementarity between education and training is causal. The identification is based on …

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed … performed at work are strong predictors of training participation while personality traits are not. Once working tasks and other … job related characteristics are controlled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off -the …

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed … performed at work are strong predictors of training participation while personality traits are not. Once working tasks and other … job related characteristics are controlled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …

compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …

compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …

We use a randomized controlled trial to examine the short- and mid-term impacts of a best-practice training program on …

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 …

on training incidence as well as on the number of trained workers. According to theory, one would expect a negative … relationship between product market competition and firms' incentives to invest in employees' general skills (Gersbach and … training. This result is robust towards different samples, model specifications and estimation techniques. …