Do government provided training programs benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the … training. Although theoretically training may have several outcomes, most evaluations have focused on only one outcome of … training: the expected wage. However, training might have no direct effect on wage, but, nevertheless, affect employment …

in a perspective of lifelong training, namely as a way to prevent unemployment phenomena, and on the preventive …

skills, human capital accumulation, on-the-job training and capital-skill complementarity. We use an endogenous job …, a larger share of unskilled workers seeks training, increasing firms’ incentives to update job-specific technology … unemployment for individuals receiving training, while it increases the unemployment rate of unskilled workers without training …

empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the time period 1985-1999.We find that labor market training is the …

characteristics. Among the notable results, the paper finds that ALMP matters at the aggregate level. Training, employment incentives …

workers’ training. Training incidence in Italy is not homogeneous among regions, with a lower intensity in the South. Two not … between education and training and to the effects of regional unemployment. Both hypotheses, as the results show, are upheld … important as it affects the choice made by the firm of which workers to offer an opportunity of training, whereas unemployment …