This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...

Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are making major differences in the teaching approaches and the way students are learning. ICT enhanced learning environment facilitates active, collaborative, creative, integrative, and evaluating learning as an advantage over the traditional...

Kompetenzvermittlung kann als eine Zielsetzung von (Weiter-)Bildung begriffen werden. Für das Fachkräftemonitoring des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales wurde eine eigene Kompetenzklassifikation entwickelt. Dieser Bericht stellt die Operationalisierung der 16 tendenziell...

This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training programs and a randomly selected control group from German...

This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers’ careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learning-by-Doing (LBD) and...

This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...

This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...

Workforce development in the US today is spread across higher education institutions (primarily public 2-year and for-profit colleges), labor market institutions and workplaces, with public funding from a range of sources. But outcomes for students and workers are weaker than they could be,...

The human capability to learn is widely regarded as one of the most important resources for achieving an environmentally and socially sustainable and equitable society. Yet, traditional institutions of learning are lagging behind in transmitting such kind of transformative skills. As for...

Die vorliegende Studie stellt grundlegende Informationen zur Qualifikationsstruktur der Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich und zur Ausbildung des Fach- und Führungskräftenachwuchses zur Verfügung. Dafür werden auf Basis zahlreicher Indikatoren, die zumeist als...

Die Analyse der Auswirkungen des technologischen Wandels auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt zeigt, dass sich seit Mitte der 2000er Jahre der vormals dynamische Wandel der Tätigkeitsprofile deutlich verlangsamt hat. Routinetätigkeiten sind kaum noch zurückgegangen und Nicht-Routinetätigkeiten...

Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit den Herausforderungen des digitale Wandels für die berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildung sowie für die Hochschullehre. Dafür wurden eine breit angelegte Literaturanalyse sowie die Auswertung verschiedener Indikatoren vorgenommen. Den Kern der Studie...

As work changes more quickly, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, supported by the European Social Fund, contrasting firms that received...

Trotz der coronabedingten Kontaktbeschränkungen war die Beteiligung an beruflicher Weiterbildung bis zum Sommer 2020 nicht massiv zurückgegangen. Denn ein Großteil der Maßnahmen konnte dank entsprechender digitaler Angebote dennoch stattfinden. Je nach Beschäftigungsbranche,...

Könnte die Corona-Pandemie durch ihren Effekt auf die Digitalisierung auch die technologiebedingte Arbeitslosigkeit erhöhen? Und ist deshalb die Zeit für eine breit angelegte Weiterbildungsoffensive gekommen? Grundsätzlich ist das Fortbildungsangebot ist in der Schweiz sehr breit, und es...

Eine an Breite gewinnende Grundsatzposition in der politischen Debatte zur Weiterbildung in Deutschland tritt für einen Systemwandelmit einemWeiterbildungsgesetz, erweiterten Rechts-und Freistellungsansprüchen auf Weiterbildung, einem Bildungsgrundeinkommen,Weiterbil-dungsfondsund der...

Using data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE), we take advantage of the plausibly exogenous variation in the unemployment rate, by field of study, at time of graduation to investigate the impact of labour market condition on teacher supply, measured by enrolment onto an...

Workplace learning is a critical tool for both employees and organisations in their continuing adjustment to several global trends reshaping our workplaces, economies, and societies. This study uses the newly published data from the fourth round of the European company survey (ECS 2019) to...

We investigate the relation of further training and employees' affective commitment. In doing so, we distinguish between a support effect and a participation effect: On the one hand we analyze how a firm's general support for further training is associated with the affective commitment of their...

Context: In this study, we attempt to contribute to the scarce evidence about the relationship between perceived labour market insecurity and worker training investments. Drawing on existing research into framing in decision-making, we investigate whether framing the labour market as insecure...

The automation of work tasks due to technological change increases the pressure on employees whose workplaces consist largely of such activities. Further training is an important way of adapting skills and enabling the performance of tasks that cannot be automated and are required in modern...

Facing the aging workforce but older workers' vulnerability in the labor market, this paper empirically explores factors and policy implications to enhance older workers' employment propensity, measured by the entered employment rates (EER), after exiting the national workforce program. After...

We analyze workers' risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual framework differentiates between the investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpinning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train less; they undertake more training if it insures them...