This paper challenges the notion that on-the-job training investments are quantitatively important for workers’ welfare and argues that on-the-job training may not increase lifetime income by more than one percent. In particular, I argue that it is very difficult to reconcile the slowdown in wage growth late in a worker’s career with optimizing behavior unless the technology for learning on the...

This article, based on a study of Chicago-area women aged 25--54, concentrates on six major dimensions of women's involvement in employment and family roles. First, it breaks new ground in exploring women's attitudes about social security and retirement expectations. Second, it documents cohort changes in overall life patterns, employment, and family role involvements from age 19 to the period ...

A study of over 200 Terminal Air Traffic Control Specialists indicated that their training performance could be well predicted by a composite of four aptitude tests measuring: numerical ability, non-verbal abstract reasoning, ability to solve simplified air traffic problems, and verbal abstract reasoning. Pre-employment experience directly related to air traffic control was also found to contri...

1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53519, USA. 2 Medical Scientist Training Program and Neuroscience Training Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53519, USA. 3 Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Pisa 56126, Italy. 4 Clinical Psychology Branch, University of Pisa, AOUP Santa Chiara, Pisa 56126, Italy. 5 D...

In Imbens and Ingrist (1994), Angrist, Imbens and Rubin (1996) and Imbens and Rubin (1997), assumptions have been outlined under which instrumental variables estimands can be given a causal interpretation as a local average treatment effect without requiring functional form or constant treatment effect assumptions. We extend these results by showing that under these assumptions one can estimate...

More individuals than ever before are pursuing higher education to prepare themselves for a competitive labor market. This may mean returning to the classroom to attain a general equivalency diploma (GED) degree, or going on to technical college, community college, or a four-year university to attain job training and skills. Studies show that those who attain a GED have higher earnings than hig...

Children and youth with special health care needs require more health care and related services and consequently incur more costs than other individuals. Implementation of the "medical home" concept has benefitted children with special needs, resulting in fewer unmet medical needs and more consistent health care delivery. As advances in health care have enabled an increasingly higher percentage...

The four Regional Training Centres (RTCs) founded by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research have used their regional context and resources to develop an innovative approach to reach their common goal of increasing capacity in applied health and nursing services research in Canada. As this overview explains, experiential learning features ...

Handwashing is the most effective method of preventing the spread of nosocomial infection. Despite its simplicity, handwashing is frequently omitted by health care personnel. To date there have been no studies of the handwashing practices of occupational therapists. A telephone survey of 50 occupational therapy personnel indicated that the majority (60%) washed their hands with a liquid antimic...

The present study was designed to determine whether employees diagnosed with epilepsy, in contrast to comparable colleagues, encounter disadvantages in their professional careers. Attention was focused on education, job training, number of jobs performed, sickness absenteeism, accidents at work and wages. A group of 34 employees diagnosed with epilepsy was selected and compared with matched, no...