This paper models and estimates the impact of quantitative and qualitative training financed by the firm on labour … training can increase labour demand through its positive net effect on labour productivity or decrease it through higher direct … for the potential simultaneity between training and labour demand and for unobserved workplace characteristics reveals a …

The objective of this paper is to model and estimate the impact of labour training financed by the firm on labour … demand in Belgium, introducing training potential productivity and cost effects. To model this influence, we assume profit … maximizing firms producing under a short run monopolistic competition regime. We emphasize that training variables, both …

training, are as follows. Employment in the enterprises of the limited population increased by 0.3 p.c. on average between 2003 … the staff movements. The net inflow of workers has been broken down by their level of training and the gross outflow of … expressed by European and Belgian authorities, the formal training indicators again showed a drop in 2004, except for the …

of 2 to 5 between branches. Finally, in regard to training, the financial effort indicator declined once again in 2005 …. The training budget is estimated to be 1.05 p.c. of staff costs in 2005, against 1.13 p.c. in 2004 and a peak of 1.42 p ….c. in 2000. However, there was a slight increase in the rate of employees’ participation in training : 36 p.c. of workers …

. Despite a rise in the number of training firms, budgets for both formal and informal training were revised downwards in 2009 …. In all, firms devoted 1.63 p.c. of staff costs to training their workers, compared with 1.72 p.c. a year earlier, a …, except where informal training was concerned. …

discernible in terms of hourly costs, depending on the size and branch of activity of the companies. In terms of training, the … results for 2006 still fall well short of the set targets : training costs accounted for 1.17 p.c. of the total wage bill … in training was only 35.2 p.c. whereas a target has been set of 50 p.c. by 2010. Growth was nevertheless recorded between …

the latter, hourly labour costs are weaker in Wallonia than in the two other regions. Performance in the field of training … employee participation rate. The first indicator, that is, the training budget as a percentage of staff costs, was estimated at … 1.2 p.c. in 2006. There was a further but small increase in the rate of employee participation in training : only 36.4 p …

breakdown of staff numbers by educational level. On average, women tend to have a more intensive level of training than men …. Workers’ educational requirements vary considerably according to the branch of activity. Since the year 2008, training … activities have been broken down between formal and informal vocational training and initial training, whereas before only formal …

2010, firms invested more in formal and informal training for their workers, who also participated in such training in … training (alternating study and work experience) – which remains marginal. Firms operating in more than one Region are … considerably larger than the average and proportionately more numerous to report training activities in their social balance sheet …