of apprenticeship training by changing training procedures towards more training at the work place and thus by decreasing …We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of … collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes …

who can signal their high level of specific skills earn seven to ten percent more than identical students lacking such a … signal. The signal allows workers to find jobs in more productive firms and sectors that better use their skills. The …

In periods of accelerating technological change, incumbent workers must continuously update their skills to remain …-to-date skills. We investigate how incumbent workers' careers respond to the increasing labor supply of graduates with more … technologically advanced IT skills during a period of accelerating technological change. We identify a supply shock of more …

investigate mismatch as an explanation for the negative pecuniary returns to postdoc training. Our data contain unique worker …-level job task information that allows us to compare the skills acquired in the years just after graduation to the tasks … salary premium when skills align with tasks. Differences in accumulated task-specific human capital explain the between …

to take up on-the-job training, to climb up the career ladder, or to eventually leave to professions more suitable to … overeducated workers have a significantly higher probability to take up on-the-job training than adequately educated workers and …

growth. Each of these results are consistent with wage compression that skills acquired through training and learning …Firms frequently provide general skill training to workers at the firm's cost. Theories proposed that labor market … firms. We first document that the firm provides upfront training, and show that both workers' tenure and the initial fee …

healthcare trainees in their third year of training. The main result is that those trainees (in upper-secondary education) who …