Using German linked employer-employee data, this paper investigates the impact of on-the-job training on wages. The applied estimation technique was fi rst introduced by Leuven and Oosterbeek (2008). The idea is to compare wages of employees who intended to participate in training but did not do so because of a random event with wages of training participants. The estimated wage returns are sta...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: organizations planned in-service trainings for updating of personnel’s information. icdl (international computer driving license) is one of the most important trainings. the purpose of this research is evaluation the some aspects of icdl in-service trainings from the viewpoints of administrators and personnel...

The training of counselors who work in a correctional institution setting presents a unique set of challenges. and yet no mention of it exists in the forensic psychiatry literature. There has been some writing about psychintric intervention with prisoners (e.g .. Roth and Ervin. 197P). but for the most part. on-the-line counseling work in correctional institutions is performed by people with li...

OBJECTIVES This analysis describes trends in the prevalence of genital chlamydial infection in economically disadvantaged young women entering a national job training program. METHODS We examined chlamydia test data for May 1990 through June 1997 for women aged 16 to 24 years who enrolled in the program. The significance of trends was evaluated with the chi 2 test for trend. RESULTS Prevale...

In 2014, the National Institutes of Health invested $31 million in 10 primary institutions across the United States through the Building Undergraduate Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program; one requirement of BUILD is sending undergraduate trainees from those primary institutions to partner institutions for research experiences. Mechanisms like BUILD are designed to broaden resear...

The birth of the Bulletin The year 1990 was a landmark for public health in New South Wales (NSW). The Public Health Division at the then NSWDepartment of Health was in its infancy, having been formed at the end of 1989, and funding for a program to enhance public health in NSW led to the establishment of a network of Public Health Units and the NSW Public HealthOfficer Training Program. TheNSW...

An Evaluation of Public-Sector-Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany This study analyses the effects of public-sector-sponsored continuous vocational training and retraining in East Germany after unification with West Germany in 1990. It presents econometric estimates of the average gains from training participation in terms of employment probabilities, earnings, and...

Patrick Nguku, Fausta Mosha, Elizabeth Prentice, Tura Galgalo, Adebola Olayinka, Peter Nsubuga Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Nigeria,Tanzania National Health Laboratory, Tanzania, Medical Microbiologist, AMPATH, South Africa, Kenya Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Kenya, Department of Medical Microbiology, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria, ...

Many researchers are reluctant to use aggregate data in program evaluation and other policy relevant research. Aggregate data refers to data on individuals that have been averaged by year, by geographic area, by service agency, or in some other way. For example, data on the individual earnings of job training participants may be aggregated by year or student test scores may be aggregated by sch...