On-the-job training and productivity: Firm-level evidence from a large developing country

Does human capital matter for reduction in energy consumption in India?

“…In the literature, there exists voluminous work done in examining the nexus between energy consumption and economic growth (Kraft and Kraft, 1978; Stern, 2000; Soytas et al , 2001; Paul and Bhattacharya, 2004; Wolde-Rufael, 2004; Lee, 2005; Ang, 2007; Wang et al , 2011; Shahbaz et al , 2013; Magazzino, 2017a, 2017b). A large strand of study has examined the causalities between energy consumption and other factors such as real income and economic growth across the globe (Masih and Masih, 1996; Jumbe, 2004; Odhiambo, 2009; Liu and Lu, 2016; Hasanov et al , 2017; Mahalingam and Orman, 2018; Kourtzidis et al , 2018; Magazzino, 2018). Magazzino (2016) and Magazzino (2017a, 2017b) investigated the relationship among economic growth, carbon dioxide emissions and energy use in the case of Middle East countries and 19 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation countries, respectively.…”

Review Paper: The Mediating Role of Creativity on the Relationship Between Knowledge Management and Human Resource Management Toward Innovation Performance in the Jordanian Smes

“…Training is one of the main practices in the firms toward total improvement such as maintaining market superiority, enhancing staff skills and knowledge, and increasing productivity (Habib, Zahra, & Mushtaq, 2015). One of the most widespread ways to enhance individual productivity within an organization is by achieving organizational goals and improving staff skills and performance (Liu & Lu, 2016).…”

Training, productivity and wages: An investigation of China's manufacturing enterprises in a privatization era

“…The only significant work similar to ours is Konings and Vanormelingen (2015). In the previous literature, most studies adopt a two-step procedure by estimating TFP first and then study the effect of training on TFP such as Liu and Lu (2016). In our estimation, we deal with the endogeneity of training using intermediate goods (raw materials) as a proxy for time-varying firm-specific productivity shocks, and we introduce heterogeneity into the structural model, which can help us further understand how the relationship varies with context and population of interest.…”

“…importance of education attainment, but work-related training provided by firms is less explored in the literature due to at least two reasons: (a) the limited availability of detailed firm-level data and (b) the potential bias in econometric estimation due to the unobserved firm heterogeneity and the endogeneity problems (Konings & Vanormelingen, 2015;Liu & Lu, 2016). Three important questions waiting for more discussions in the context of economic transition are as follows: (a) is on-the-job training important in increasing productivity, (b) would training increase labour costs and (c) why would firms provide training to their workers voluntarily?…”

“…3 Thus, it would be interesting to know how training contributed to productivity and if there was any return to training amid China's transition. As argued by Liu and Lu (2016), since the Chinese education (especially professional education) system was not that effective and qualified skilled workers were unabundant, training was expected to play critical roles in the process of China's structural change. However, it is surprising that there is little research on its effects in China, and we will complement the literature by doing so.…”