We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement onlife satisfaction is negligible. For this we use subjective well-being measures for lifeand domains of life satisfaction that are available in the German Socio-Economic Panel(GSOEP) and show that the effect of...

A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 per cent per course. The analyses reveal a substantial heterogeneity between training courses,...