-for training. Both channels lead to a decline in TFP. We test these implications in a large panel of Spanish manufacturing firms …

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. …

We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various … forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages …. We initially present descriptive information about training: we find that most work-related training is viewed by its …

extensive use of temporary workers. Furthermore, these effects are at work only for the use of non-training temporary contracts …, while training temporary contracts are not affected by unions, volatility and their interplay. We argue that this occurs … because non-training temporary contracts can be used by firms as a buffer stock to cope with uncertainty and by unions to …