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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages - Evidence from Belgian Firm Level Panel Data
Konings, Jozef - 2011
productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes … firms more productive. On-the-job training increases firm level measured productivity between 1 and 2%, compared to firms … productivity. Average wages increase only by 0.5%. Sectoral spillovers between firms that train workers are found, but only in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012714220
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On-the-job Training and Labor Market Concentration
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Marcato, Alberto - 2023
In this paper, we provide a new set of stylised facts on firm provision of on-the-job training and labor market competition. We exploit job ad texts taking a supervised machine learning approach to identify training offers. We find that around 20% of US job posts offer on-the-job training, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343643
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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413337
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"The double dividend of training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414731
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"The Double Dividend of Training" - Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243161
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"The Double Dividend of Training" - Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244243
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Strategic Shirking in Competitive Labor Markets : A General Model of Multi-Task Promotion Tournaments with Employer Learning
DeVaro, Jed - 2018
In a multi-task, market-based promotion tournament model, under different environments concerning employer learning about worker ability, it is shown that:i) Asymmetric learning in multi-task jobs is a necessary condition for "strategic shirking" (i.e., underperforming on certain tasks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934722
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages. Evidence from Belgian Firm Level Panel Data
Konings, Jozef - 2008
productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes … firms more productive. On-the-job training increases firm level measured productivity between 1 and 2%, compared to firms … productivity. Average wages increase only by 0.5%. Sectoral spillovers between firms that train workers are found, but only in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313321
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Open labor markets and firms' substitution between training apprentices and hiring workers
Aepli, Manuel; Kuhn, Andreas - 2019
In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for firms, we hypothesize that (easier) access to cross-border workers will lead some employers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036439
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The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile
Doerr, Annabelle; Novella, Rafael - 2020
Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587654