Training and Productivity: Evidence for US Manufacturing Industries

The relationship between training and innovation activities in enterprises

“…The economic literature finds that participation in training is beneficial for both the participating workers and their employers (De Grip & Sauermann, ). There is also evidence that on‐the‐job training has a positive impact on productivity at the firm level (Almeida & Carneiro, ) or industrial level (Sepúlveda, ), that work‐related training is associated with higher industrial productivity (Dearden et al ., ), that firm productivity correlates positively with a higher innovation output (Crépon et al ., ), and that there is a positive relationship between innovation in firms and their productivity which is primarily due to product innovation (Hall, , p. 188)…”

Dancing with the Stars: How Talent Shapes Firm Performance

“…It is well established that employees' human capital has desirable effects on firm performance in research that examines the influence of observable skill-factors, for example the impact of job-related training (e.g. Bartel, 2000;Ichniowski, Shaw, & Prennushi, 1997;Sepúlveda, 2010). There is a modest amount of empirical work in labor economics that explore how worker talent affects productivity using the conceptualization we advance here.…”

The effect of training on Italian firms’ productivity: microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives

“…The impact of vocational training on firms' productivity is an intensively debated issue on theoretical (Acemoglu & Pischke, 1999;Becker, 1962Becker, , 1964Becker, , 1993Malcomson et al, 2003) and empirical (Bassanini et al, 2007;Sala & Silva, 2013;Sep ulveda, 2010) grounds. The conventional wisdom is that labour market frictions usually enhance firms' profitability towards sponsoring training programmes while on-the-job training is able to boost corporate productivity and sometimes wages as well.…”