出版社：Urad za Makroekonomske Analize in Razvoj (UMAR) / Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development (IMAD)
摘要：Training (state) aid has very favourable
effects not only for aid
recipients, but also for society as
a whole; by its nature, it is very
similar to R&D aid. Companies are
frequently underinvested as far as
knowledge is concerned, especially
in specific knowledge which is not
provided by the educational system.
Based on individual company data
for Slovenia in 1998–2006 and by
using the matching method, we
analyse the impact of training aid
on wage and productivity growth in
the recipient firms. We find that the
aid contributed to the increase of
average wages in the recipient firms,
but it only has a low impact on their
productivity growth. The reasons for
the latter range from inadequately
structured state aid programmes
and a poor choice of recipients to
an insufficient amount of aid per
recipient. It also seems that recipient
firms are not very successful in
exploiting the new knowledge and
skills of workers being trained.
