Economics of training
This book provides a comprehensive account of the application of economic ideas to the analysis of training. Its focus is on theory, empirical evidence and policy, drawing on the human capital approach and showing how diverse economic ideas might combine to develop a general theory. It offers succinct summaries of the key theoretical ideas: human capital theory; transactional model; signalling; asymmetric information and labour structure. A critique of past and current United Kingdom training policy is given and issues of policy formation are addressed. Finally, there is an extensive bibliogra ... Show more
Authors: Chapman, Paul G.
Published: New York, New York, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: xiv, 152 p.
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