Enhancing employer expenditure in training

Compliance, engagement and commitment: Increasing employer expenditure in training

Enhancing enterprise expenditure on VET: Policy goals and mechanisms

Increasing enterprises’ expenditure on their employees’ vocational education and training (VET) remains an important policy goal for governments in many countries. Policy mechanisms implemented to secure this goal include the legislated and mandated approaches adopted in Germany, France and Australia, and measures designed to encourage voluntarism and exhort enterprises to increase their expend...

Effect of one-month concurrent training with or without caffeine supplementation on resting energy expenditure and leptin resistance in overweight women

Background and Objective: Leptin resistance is an important risk factor for obesity. So, the present study was conducted in order to determine the effectiveness of one-month concurrent training with and without caffeine ingestion on the resting energy expenditure and leptin resistance in overweight women.   Materials and Methods: 20 non-athlete and overweight women in a double-blind and quasi...

Measuring health care costs of individuals with employer-sponsored health insurance in the U.S.: A comparison of survey and claims data.

As the core nationally representative health expenditure survey in the United States, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is increasingly being used by statistical agencies to track expenditures by disease. However, while MEPS provides a wealth of data, its small sample size precludes examination of spending on all but the most prevalent health conditions. To overcome this issue, statis...

Optimal Training, Employee Preferences and Moral Hazard

We study an agency model with moral hazard, when the employer offers complementary training/development programs that will increase the productivity of the employee’s effort. Since it is costly for an employer to offer training and development opportunities and given that employees are not identical, how will an employer choose the quantity and allocation of such programs? Does the quantity and...