In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. We use a panel of large firms with detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics. Our estimates of the return to training vary substantially across firms. On average it is −7% for firms not providing training and...

PROBLEM Falls from heights account for 64% of residential construction worker fatalities and 20% of missed work days. We hypothesized that worker safety would improve with foremen training in fall prevention and safety communication. METHOD Training priorities identified through foreman and apprentice focus groups and surveys were integrated into an 8-hour training. We piloted the training wi...

Bruce and Waldman make an important contribution regarding the Samaritan dilemma: the expectations of inheritance motivates the younger generation at the margin in the direction of welfare reducing behavior. However, these authors misinterpret the standard analysis on this matter as prediction instead of explanation; confuse governmental subsidies with private charitable giving, and uncriticall...

Kompetensi guru, diperlukan upaya yang dapat menstimulasi peningkatan kompetensi guru melalui Preservice dan inservice training. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis; (1) pengaruh preservice training terhadap Sekolah Dasar di Kabupaten Bolaang Mongondow Utara (2) model (3) Utara. Pendekatan digunakan dalam pendekatan kuantitatif dengan jenis explanatory research. Berdasarkan hasil an...

Comments on the article, "Guidelines for competency development and measurement in rehabilitation psychology postdoctoral training," by Stiers et al. (see record 2014-55195-001). Stiers and colleagues have provided a thorough and well-conceived set of guidelines that lay out the competencies expected for graduates of postdoctoral residencies in rehabilitation psychology, accompanied by a set of...

The broad goal our research is to explore how Activity Theory can be utilised to develop adaptive mobile learning environments to support reflective on-the-job training at Fire and Rescue services. Specifically, we examine how to facilitate crew commanders to develop risk assessment skills. This paper presents the architecture of a personalised mobile learning agent which engages crew commander...

Inheritance of culture is achieved by social learning and improvement is achieved by individual learning. To realize cumulative cultural evolution, social and individual learning should be performed in this order in one's life. However, it is not clear whether such a learning schedule can evolve by the maximization of individual fitness. Here we study optimal allocation of lifetime to learning ...

Relatively few mental skills training programs have solely focused on team-building issues. The purpose of this article is to briefly describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a team building mental skills training program for an intercollegiate equestrian team. In particular, theoretical and methodological rationales for the teambuilding intervention are provided. The data are ana...

OBJECTIVE Inequity in physician distribution poses a challenge to many health systems. In Japan, a new postgraduate training program for all new medical graduates was introduced in 2004, and researchers have argued that this program has increased inequalities in physician distribution. We examined the trends in the geographic distribution of pediatricians as well as all physicians from 1996 to ...